Regarding the direction of the journal, Joaquim da Silva Tavares was succeeded by Paulo Durão Alves (1893–1977) on two occasions: from 1932 to 1933 and again from 1954 to 1958. Mariano Monteiro de Carvalho Pinho (1894–1963) directed it between 1934 and 1935; Domingos Maurício Gomes dos Santos (1896–1978) from 1936 to 1949; and António Maria de Meireles Leite de Castro, better known as António Leite (1911–2004), who served two terms, from 1950 to 1954 and from 1959 to 1964. Manuel Antunes (1918–1985) also directed the journal in two periods: first from 1965 to 1971, then from 1976 to 1982. Luís Archer (1926–2011) served as director from 1972 to 1975 and again between 1994 and 2000. António da Silva (1926–2005) directed it from 1983 to 1993, and Hermínio Nogueira Ferreira Rico (b. 1961) took over from 2000 to 2008. António Vaz Pinto (b. 1942) was the director from 2008 to 2016.
The dispersal of the São Fiel community, following the expulsion of the Society of Jesus by the Governo Provisório da República [Provisional Government of the Republic] on 8 October 1910, led to several changes in the headquarters of Brotéria . In 1913, it was published as Revista Luso-Brasileira [Luso-Brazilian Journal], with its management in Baía, Brazil, and the editorial office in Salamanca, which moved to Tuy in 1914. In 1919 it was based at the Society College in La Guardia. As the next decade saw the prospect of the Order's return to Portugal, the 1923 and 1924 issues listed Braga and Caminha as the places of publication. From 1928, with the opening of the SJ mission in Lisbon, the journal began to stabilise its headquarters, initially at Rua Braamcamp and, from 1930 onwards, at Rua Maestro António Taborda.
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