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Decorations awarded by the President of the Republic to individualities in the Portuguese Communities and foreign citizens on the National Day of Portugal

In celebrating the National Day of Portugal, Camões and the Portuguese Communities, the President of the Republic awarded several individualities from the Portuguese Communities of the Diaspora and foreign citizens decorations which will be opportunely presented.

Following is the list of the decorated individualities:


National Orders:

Order of Prince Henry the Navigator

• Johannes Laitenberger - EU (Grand Officer)
• Juan Ignacio Zoido Alvarez – Spain (Grand Officer)
• António José Calçada de Sá – Spain (Commander)
• Fernando Cruz Gomes Antunes - Canada (Commander)
• Hugo Monteiro Brilhante Sobral – EU (Commander)
• João Carlos Martins – Brazil (Commander)
• José António Coimbra de Matos – Luxembourg (Commander)
• Paulo Carvalho – Belgium (Commander)
• Percival Ivo Vital de Noronha – India (Commander)
• José Leonel Rodrigues Teixeira –USA (Officer)
• Maria Victoria William Haddad – Spain (Officer)
• Michael Geoffrey F. J. Plumley – EU (Officer)
• Urs Buhrer – Switzerland (Officer)

Order of Freedom

• Maria Beatriz de Sena e Costa dos Santos Ferreira - Mozambique (Commander)

Orders of Civil Merit:

Order of Merit

• Alexis Tam Chon Weng – Macau, China (Commander)
• João Luís Morgado Pacheco –USA (Commander)
• Joaquim da Rocha Brites – Brazil (Commander)
• José Ilídio Nascimento – South Africa (Commander)
• José Manuel Salvador Duarte – Colombia (Commander)
• Manuel Henrique Catarino do Carmo Pedro – Angola (Commander)
• Marcelo Mattos Araújo – Brazil (Commander)

Order of Public Education

• António R. Moreira –USA (Commander)

Order of Entrepreneurial Merit

- Class of Agricultural Merit

• Sylvia Loch – United Kingdom (Commander)

- Class of Commercial Merit

• António de Freitas – Venezuela (Commander)
• José Maria Pinto da Cruz Teixeira - Morocco (Officer)
• Wilson Sandro Teixeira – Canada (Officer)

- Class of Industrial Merit

• Francisco Ivens Sá Dias Branco – Brazil (Grand Officer)
• John G. Melo –USA (Grand Officer)
• José Maria Marshall de Barros Lima Ivo – Chile (Grand Officer)
• Pedro Pires de Miranda – Germany (Grand Officer)

05.06.2014

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