The party was established in
Braga in 1915 and won a single seat in both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the
parliamentary elections later that year. The
1918 elections were boycotted by the three largest parties, and saw the PCC win five House seats and retain its seat in the Senate. On 7 February 1934,
António Lino Neto (who had been president since 1919) resigned from the party after a letter from
Pope Pius XI recognized another Catholic association,
Acção Católica Portuguesa. The party was officially disbanded by the episcopacy in January 1940, in the context of the 1940
Concordat between Portugal and the
Holy See. At the time it was the last non-government party still in operation, 14 years after the coup. ==Election results==