Sebastião Soares de Resende (1906 - 1967) was a Portuguese Catholic bishop in Africa at the head of the diocese of Beira in Mozambique.
[1][2] After being a professor and later the vice-rector of the Major Seminary of Oporto, Sebastião Soares de Resende was nominated in early 1943 as the bishop of the recently created diocese of Beira, Mozambique.
Aside numerous missions and schools (paid for by the Portuguese state who had outsourced education for Africans to the Catholic church), Dom Sebastião created a newspaper, the Diário de Moçambique.
His pastoral letter was prevented from circulating in 1949 and his newspaper was suspended several times in the 1960s because of its critical stance in relation to colonialism.
After his death in 1967, the diocese entered a period of turmoil as Dom Sebastião's successors failed to repeat his even hand.