ANDRADA, DIEGO DE PAYVA D', or ANDRADIUS, a learned Portuguese, born at Coimbra in 1528, who distinguished himself at the council of Trent, where he was sent by King Sebastian as one of his divines. He wrote several volumes of sermons, and other pieces; one of which, De Conciliorum Autoritate, was highly esteemed at Rome on account of the great extension of authority which it gave to the pope. He died in 1575.