Goan Catholics

Goan Catholics
Regions with significant populations
India India (1954)1,000,000[1]
     →Goa (2011)366,130[2]
     →Greater Bombay (1960s)~100,000[3]
Portugal Portugal80,000~100,000
     →Nairobi (prior to the 1960s)~5000[4]
Uganda Uganda (1931)~1124[5]
     →Kampala (1931)~500[6]
     → Tanganyika (1931)~1,722[7]
     →Dar es Salaam (1993)700[8]
Pakistan Pakistan (1954)~30,000[9]
     →Karachi (1954)~10,000[9]
Persian Gulf countries~20,000[9]
Canada Canada (1999)~23,000[10]
     →Ontario (1999)~16,000[10]
→London~6,000[11]
→Swindon (2018)~12,000[12]
Languages
Goan Konkani, English, Portuguese
Religion
Catholicism (Latin Rite)
Related ethnic groups
Konkani Catholics, Karwari Catholics, Mangalorean Catholics

Goan Catholics (Goan Konkani: Goenchem Katholik) are an ethno-religious community of Indian Christians adhering to the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church from the Goa state, in the southern part of the Konkan region along the west coast of India. They are Konkani people and speak the Konkani language.

Missionary activities followed soon after the Portuguese conquest of Goa as Pope Nicholas V had enacted the Papal bull of Romanus Pontifex in AD 1455, according to which the patronage for propagation of the Christian faith in the East Indies was granted to the Portuguese crown.

Their culture is an amalgam of Konkani and Portuguese cultures, with the latter having a more important role because Goa, Damaon & Diu had been ruled by Portugal from AD 1510–1961.[13] The notion of Goan identity as a distinct culture among other Luso-Asians or Luso-Indian cultures was forged into India after the annexation of Goa and Damaon in 1961.

The Goan Catholic diaspora is concentrated in the Persian Gulf countries; the Lusophone world, especially Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, and Zanzibar; the European Union countries; and the Anglophone world, especially the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.[14]

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  12. ^ Pereira, Andrew (27 November 2018). "Goans help put life back into London's churches". Times News Network. Goa: The Times Group. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  13. ^ da Silva Gracias, Fatima (1997). "The Impact of Portuguese Culture in Goa: A Myth or Reality". In Charles J. Borges (ed.). Goa and Portugal: Their Cultural Links. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company. pp. 41–51.
  14. ^ Pereira, Clifford (2011). "Goans of the North Atlantic: A Transnational study of Migration, Technology Adoption, and Neoculturation across Six Generations". In German, Myna; Banerjee, Padmini (eds.). Migration, Technology, and Transculturation: A Global Perspective. Center for International and Global Studies, Lindenwood University Press. pp. 165–183. ISBN 978-0-9846307-4-5.