Jerome**, a Jesuit missionary, was born at Lisbon in the year 1593. He became a member of the Jesuit society at 16 years of age, and in 1622 went out as a missionary to the East Indies. He sailed to the coast of Mozambique, after making some stay at Goa; and afterwards penetrated into Abyssinia, where his zeal and resolution brought on him the hatred of the monks, from which he incurred much danger and suffering. As he returned to Portugal he was shipwrecked on the coast of Natal, where seven months were spent in constructing shallops to bring them away. One of them founded, but that in which Father Lobo sailed arrived safe at Angola. After a variety of adventures he arrived at Lisbon; and he employed himself in the cause of the Ethiopian mission both at Madrid and Rome. He took a second voyage to the Indies, where he was made rector of the house at Goa. He returned to Lisbon in 1658, and was chosen rector of the college of Coimbra, where he died in 1678, at the age of 84.

Lobo wrote an historical account of Abyssinia in the Portuguese language, which contains information both curious and valuable. It was translated into French by the abbé le Grand in 4to, in 1728; and the earliest production of Dr Samuel Johnson was an abridged version of this work.