Bishop of Bahia
Dom Pedro da Silva
With governor Teles, a central figure in denunciations and arrests of New Christians in Bahia.
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Under governor Antonio Teles da Silva, Bahia saw the Great Inquest of 1646. Vicar Temudo's report, marked by prejudice, claims that most inhabitants of the land were Jews.