Priest: São João Batista
Localities: Balancho, Capela, Carvoeiro, Degolados, Feiteira, Frei João, Galega, Maxieira, Pereiro, Pracana, Fundeiro, Quebrada, Rouqueira, Sanguinheira, Vale da Casa, Vale de Santiago, Vale Pedro Anes.
Carvoeiro was one of the villages of the Grand Priory of Crato. It belonged to the Order of Malta, to the old district of Crato, and to the Tomar provinces.
On May 18, 1518, it was granted a charter by King Manuel I, along with other towns in the Order of the Hospital.
In 1835, it appeared as a municipality in the district of Santarém along with five other towns in the priory of Crato (Belver, Cardigos, Envendos, Oleiros and Pedrógão Pequeno).
The municipality was abolished in 1836 and integrated into that of Mação, in the district of Castelo Branco.
In the maps of the judicial division, approved by Decree of December 28, 1840, referred to in the judicial reform Decree of May 21, 1841, Mação appears as a court in the district of Abrantes, administrative district of Santarém.
The parish priest was rector cura, presented by the grand prior of Crato and, from 1790, by the Casa do Infantado until its extinction in 1834.
In addition to the parish church, in 1758 it had the following chapels as places of worship: Divino Espírito Santo, Santo António, São Pedro, Santa Margarida (Sanguinheira), Nossa Senhora da Graça (Quebrada), Nossa Senhora da Moita (on the slope of a mountain between Feiteira and Galega).
He continued in the grand priory of Crato as a nullis diocesis, attached in spiritualibus to the patriarchate of Lisbon, which was definitively abolished at the end of 1882, when he moved to the diocese of Portalegre.
It currently belongs to the diocese of Portalegre-Castelo Branco, archpriestate of Abrantes.
CUSTODIAL AND ARCHIVAL HISTORY
In general, the originals were in the possession of the parish church until 1859. The decree of August 19th of that year ordered that the parish registry books and documents be archived in the Ecclesiastical Chambers, with the duplicates being kept in the parishes. The decree of February 18, 1911 (DG no. 41, of February 20, 1911), which instituted compulsory civil registration, ordered that the parish registration books held in the Ecclesiastical Chambers, as well as the originals and duplicates kept by the parish priests, should be transferred to the competent Civil Registry Offices as they left office in the respective parishes. In 1916 (decree no. 2225, of February 18), in order to collect the parish registers, under the terms of decree no. 1630, of June 9, 1915, the Archive of Parish Registers, Civil Registry, was created, attached to the National Archive, which by decree of May 18, 1918, was also the archive for the districts of Lisbon and Santarém. Headquartered in the now-defunct Episcopal Palace of São Vicente de Fora, it was transferred in 1953 to a ground-floor flat in Rua dos Prazeres, and in 1972 to the National Archives of Torre do Tombo, in the Palácio de São Bento, where it remained until 1990, when it was transferred and its own building in Campo Grande was inaugurated. The Santarém District Archive, created by decree no. 46.350 of May 22, 1965, began operating in 1974. The Lisbon District Archive (Torre do Tombo) holds original records dating back to the mid-19th century.