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	Diocese of Funchal
Province	Patriarchate of Lisbon
Bishop	António José Cavaco Carrilho
Cathedral	Sé do Funchal
Subdivisions	—
Suffragan Bishop(s)	None
Parishes	52
Membership	—
Website	http://www.diocesedofunchal.pt/

The Diocese of Funchal was created originally in January 12 of 1514, through the bula Pro excellenti præeminentia written by Pope Leo X, following the elevation of Funchal from Village to the status of Town, by King Manuel I of Portugal (Real mandate from August 21 of 1508). The new diocese was dependent from the Archidiocese of Lisbon.

Nineteen years later, on January 31 of 1533, it was elevated to the Archiepiscopal rank, becoming during twenty two years, the largest Metropolitan Archdiocese in the world, where it had the suffragan dioceses: Azores, Brazil, Africa and Goa. The first (and only) Archbishop was D. Martinho of Portugal (with the title of "Prime"). On July 3, 1551, a new restructuring of the dioceses of Portugal and its empire, led to extinction of the Archdiocese of Funchal and its return to Diocese. In 1570 was made a suffragan of Archdiocese of Lisbon (later Patriarchate), until the present.

Despite that, none of the first three bishops ever went to Madeira; only the fourth, Frei Jorge de Lemos, went to take personally the Cathedra of bishop.

Until the 20th century, the bishops of Funchal used the title of Bishops of Madeira, of Porto Santo, of Desertas and of Arguim.

At March 8 of 2007, Pope Benedict XVI appointed as Bishop of Funchal D. António José Cavaco Carrilho, until then Auxiliary Bishop of Porto.