The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Angamaly was an ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Malabar, India. It came into existence as a Catholic continuation of the Ecclesiastical Province of India of the Church of the East following the schism of 1552. It was established in 1565 and continued to exist till 1599 when it was ultimately suppressed by the colonial Synod of Diamper in 1599 and replaced by the Portuguese Padroado administered Diocese of Angamaly (later Archdiocese of Cranganore) suffragan to the Padroado Primatal Archdiocese of Goa. The brief and turbulent history of the archdiocese is noted for the two archbishops, namely Joseph Sulaqa and Abraham, who were the last Persian prelates to govern the undivided Saint Thomas Christian community in South India.[1][2]
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Angamaly | |
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 Rabban Mar Hormizd Cathedral in Angamaly, built in 1577 by Archbishop Abraham, was the archiepiscopal seat of the Archdiocese of Angamaly. | |
| Location | |
| Country |  India |
| Territory | India |
| Headquarters | School of Angamaly,[3] Angamaly, Kingdom of Mangattu, Malabar |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Saint Thomas Christians |
| Sui iuris church | Chaldean Catholic Church |
| Rite | East Syriac Rite |
| Established | 1565 |
| Dissolved | 1599 (latinised by the Synod of Diamper)[4] |
| Cathedral | Rabban Mar Hormizd Cathedral |
- ^ Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East 1318 - 1913. Louvain: Aedibus Peeters. p. 350. ISBN 9042908769.
- ^ Pallath, Paul (2005). The Provincial Councils of Goa and the Church of St Thomas Christians. Kottayam: OIRSI. ISBN 8188456225.
- ^ Antonio da Silva Rego, ed. (1952). "Informação do que fez o Padre Mestre Melchior Carneiro em uns Reinos que estão junto de Cochim pela terra dentro". Documentação para a Historia das Missões do Padroado Portugues do Oriente (in Portuguese). 8. Lisbon: 498–9.
- ^ Pallath (2005).