The NAZRANIES
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The Hindu
Daily (Tuesday, August 4, 1998)
Dr.
Mar Aprem - Metropolitian
Dr. A.M
Mundadan
Books reproduced in
full:
GEDDES: A short history of
the Church of Malabar together with The Synod of Diamper.
G.T. MACKENZIE: Christianity
in Travancore.
GEORGE CATHANAR: The
Orthodoxy of the St.Thomas Christians.
MEDLYCOTT: India and The
Apostle Thomas.
A SYRIAN CATHOLIC: A Synopsis
of the history of the Syrian Church in Malabar.
PANJIKARAN: The Syrian Church
in Malabar.
BERNARD: A Brief Sketch of
the History of the St. Thomas Christians.
FARQUHAR: The Apostle Thomas
in North India.
FARQUHAR: The Apostle Thomas
in South India.
D’CRUZ: St. Thomas the
Apostle in India.
PLACID: The Syrian Church of
Malabar.
JOB: The Syrian Church of
Malabar.
KAITHANAL: Christianity in
Malabar.
DANIEL: The Syrian Church of
Malabar.
JUHANON MAR THOMA:
Christianity in India and the Mar Thoma Syrian Church.
Lengthy extracts
included from:
ADRIAAN MOENS: The Dutch in
Malabar.
JAMES HOUGH: The History of
Christianity in India.
FRANCIS DAY: The Land of the
Permauls or Cochin its past and its present.
C.M.AGUR: Church History of
Travancore.
LADISLAS-MICHEL ZALESKI: The
Apostle St. Thomas in India.
J.N. OGILVIE: The Apostle of
India.
W.S. HUNT: The Anglican
Church in Travancore & Cochin.
GILLE A.: Christianity at
Home.
K.P. PADMANABHA MENON:
History of Kerala.
K.M. PANIKKAR: Malabar and
the Dutch.
L.K. ANANTAKRISHNA AYYAR:
Anthropology of the Syrian Christians.
A. MINGANA: Early Spread of
Christianity.
JOHN STEWART: Nestorian
Missionary Enterprise.
H. HOSTEN: The Song of Thomas
Ramban.
GEORGE SCHURHAMMER: The
Malabar Church and Rome during the
P. CHERIYAN: The Malabar
Syrians and the Church Missionary Society.
H.HOSTEN S.J.: Antiquities
from San Thome and Mylapore.
H.W. CODRINGTON: Studies of
the Syrian Liturgies.
D. FERROLI, S.J.: The Jesuits
in Malabar.
GERARD GARITTE: The Georgian
Narrative of the Martyrdom of St. Thomas.
S.S. KODER et al: The Cochin Jews.
ALEXANDER MAR THOMA: The
Marthoma Church Heritage and Mission.
The Nazranies : A Rough Chronology
30
The Crucifixion.
40s
Apostle Thomas in the service of King Gondaphares in Takshasila
52 Nov
21 St. Thomas, the apostle, landed at
Cranganore (Kodungalloor, in the present Thrissur District)
52-72 The Apostle builds 7 churches: Palayoor, Kodungaloor,
Parur, Kokamangalam, Niranam, Nilackal, Kollam.
72 Jul.
3 Martyrdom of St. Thomas in the vicinity of
Mylapore, Madras.
98-117 Mesopotamia and Assyria become Roman provinces.
190
Pantaenus, probably the founder of the famous
Catechetical School of Alexandria, visited India and the Nazranies.
232 Sassanians become a major power.
325
Archbishop John, of Persia and Great India, at the
first Ecumenical Council of Nicea.
345
Thomas of Cana from Persia landed at Cranganore with 72
families of immigrants.
340-360 By the Thazhekad Sasanam the Nazranies
granted special rights and privileges.
400 North Pudukkad church founded.
480
St. Hormis church, Angamaly founded.
500 Enammavu church founded.
503
St. George church, Edappally founded.
510
Udayamperore (Diamper) church built.
522
Cosmas Indicopleustes visits South India.
570 Birth of Mohammad, Prophet of Islam in Mecca.
825
Mar Sabor and Mar Proth at Quilon.
849 King Ayyanadikal of Venad, by the Tharisappalli
copper plate grants reconfirms the 72 royal privileges of the Nazranies.
883
King Alfred's envoys Sighelm and Aethelstan conveys
alms to St.Thomas in India.
1293
Marco Polo, a Venetian traveller, visited the tomb of St.
Thomas (at Mylapore), and Kerala.
1324 Oderic the Italian Franciscan speaks about Mylapore.
1329
Aug.9 Jordan Catelani appointed first bishop of the
diocese of Quilon created by Pope John XXII.
1348 The Papal representative John Marignoli at Quilon.
1439 Pope Eugene writes to Thomas, Emperor of the
Indians.
1490
Two Chaldean bishops John and Thomas in Kerala.
1493
May 4 Division of the world and mission lands
between Spain and Portugal by Pope Alexander VI.
1498
May 20 Vasco de Gama lands at Kappad near Kozhikode.
1499 Cabral at Kozhikode.
1500
Nov 26 Franciscan Friars at Cochin.
1502
Nov 7 Vasco de Gama at Cochin.
1503
Dominican Priests at Kochi.
1503
Mar Yabella, Mar Denaha and Mar Yakoob in Kerala.
1503
Sep 27 Work commenced on Cochin Fort and the Santa
Cruz church .
1514
Portuguese Padroado begun.
1514
Jewish migration from Kodungalloor to Kochi.
1514
Jun 12 Portuguese Funchal rule over Christians in
India.
1524
Dec 24 Vasco de Gama buried at St. Francis Church,
Fort Cochin.
1534
Nov 3 Goa Diocese errected. The Parishes of Kannur,
Cochin, Quilon, Colombo and Sao Tome (Madras) belonged to it.
1540
The Franciscan Fr.Vincent De Lagos starts the Cranganore
Seminary.
1542
May 6 St. Francis Xavier, Apostolic Nuncio in the East,
reaches Goa.
1544-45
St. Francis Xavier in Travancore.
1548 Dominican Monastery founded in Cochin.
1549
Mar Abuna Jacob, A Chaldean Bishop, stayed at St. Antonio
Monastery, Cochin.
1550
First Jesuit House in Kochi.
1552
Dec 3 Death of St. Francis Xavier.
1555
Mattancherry Palace was built by Portuguese for the King
of Cochin.
1557
Pope Paul IV erects the Diocese of Cochin.
Canonization process of Francis Xavier begun at Cochin.
1565
Archdiocese of Angamaly erected.
1567
Jews shifted Mattancherry.
1568
Synagogue of White Jews built in Cochin.
1577
Vaippicotta Seminary of the Jesuits started.
1579
Augustinians reached Cochin.
1583
Synod at Angamaly by Bishop Mar Abraham.
1597
Bishop Mar Abraham, the last foreign Archbishop, died and
was laid to rest at St. Hormis church, Angamaly.
1599
Dec 20 Fr. Francis Roz was declared bishop of Angamaly.
1599
Jun 20-26 Archbishop Alexis Menezes convenes the Synod of
Diamper (Udayamperoor).
1600
Aug 4 Padroado rule imposed on Nazranies.
1601
Francis Roz was appointed as the first Latin bishop of
the St. Thomas Christians.
1609
Dec.3 Erection of the Diocese of Cranganore. The
Archdiocese of Angamaly suppressed.
1610
Dec 22 The Metropolitan of Goa limits the Pastoral
Jurisdiction of Nazranies to Malabar.
1624
Dominican Seminary at Kaduthuruthy.
1626
Feb 5 Edappally Ashram started for the Religious
Community of St. Thomas Christians
1652
Aug 23 Mar Ahathalla in Madras, not allowed to
enter Kerala.
1653
Jan 3 Coonan Cross Oath at Mattancherry, Cochin.
1653
May 22 Mar Thoma I ordained bishop at Alangad by the
laying of hands by 12 priests.
1657
Apostolic Commissary Joseph of St. Mary
ocd (Sebastiani), a Carmelite, in
Malabar.
1659
Dec 3 The Vicariate of Malabar is erected by Pope
Alexander VII.
1659
Dec 24 Joseph Sebastini bishop and appointed the Vicar
Apostolic of Malabar.
1663
Jan 6 The Dutch conquer Cochin and destroy Catholic churches and
institutions in Cochin, except the Cathedral and the chruch
1663
Jan 31 Mar Chandy Palliveettil is consecrated the first Vicar General
of the Malabar Vicariate by Bishop Mar Joseph Sebastiani.
1682
Seminary for Syrians at Verapoly.
1686
Hortus Malabaricus in 12 volumes printed in 17
years.
1687
Jan 2 Bishop Mar Chandy Palliveettil expires.
1700
Feb 20 Fr. Angelus Francis, a Carmelite, is appointed as
the Vicar Apostolic of Malabar.
1709
Mar 13 Vicariate of Malabar is suppressed and the
Vicariate of Verapoly is erected by Pope Clement XI.
1772
First Malayalam book Sampskhepa Vedartham (Rome)
by Clement Pianius.
1773
Pope Clement XIV suppresses the Jesuit Order, except in
Russia and Prussia.
1782
Dec 16 Kariyattil Joseph elected Archbp. of Cranganore; Consecr.
Lisbon 1783; Died Goa on the way back to Malabar,
1785
Varthamanappusthakam, the first written travelogue
in India by Paremakkal Thomma Kathanar.
1795
Oct 20 Conquest of Cochin by the British.
1818
C.M.S missionaries in Kerala.
1838
Apr 24 Dioceses of Cochin and Crnaganore are annexed to the Vicariate
of Verapoly.
1838
The Queen of Protugal suppressed all religious Orders in
Portugal and in her mission lands.
1840
Apr 10 St.Thomas Christians came under the archdiocese of Verapoly.
1861
May 20 Bishop Rocos sent by the Patriarch of Chaldea reaches Kerala.
1867
May 7 Property donated by Syrians to the King of Portugal to start a
Seminary at Aluva. It was administered by the Diocese
1867
The Portuguese Missionaries start a seminary at
Mangalapuzha for Syrian students.
1874
Bishop Mar Elias Melus sent by the Patriarch of Chaldea
reaches Kerala - Melus Schism.
1876
The “Marthoma Church” comes into being -- Palakkunnathu
Mathews Mar Athanasious.
1876
Sep 19,20 Ollur Conference. The Apostolic Visitor Leo Meurin
attends the conference.
1886
The Archdiocese of Cranganore is suppressed.
1886
Sept 1 Erection of the Catholic Hierarchy in India by Pope Leo XIII.
1887
Establishment of the Syro-Malabar Hierarchy by the Brief
“Quod Jam Prideus” of Pope Leo XIII. Vicariates of Trichur and Kottayam.
1887
May 19 The St. Thomas Christians are totally segregated from the
jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Verapoly and from the Padroado.
1887
May 20 The Vicariates of Kottayam and Trichur reorganized and the
Vicariate of Changanacherry, Ernakulam and Trichur were formed.
1911
Aug 29 Pius X restored the Vicariate of Kottayam for the Suddhists of
the Syro-Malabar Rite, descendants of the immigrants of A.D. 345.
1917
May 1 The Oriental Congregation is formed by Pope Benedict XV.
1923
Dec 21 Establishment of the Syro-Malabar Hierarchy with Ernakulam as
the Metropolitan See, and Trichur, Changanacherry and Kottayam as Sufragan Sees.
1930
Sept 20 Reunion of the eminent Jacobite Archbishop Mar Ivanios, Bishop
Mar Theophilus, Fr. John O.I.C., Bro. Aledxander and Mr. Chacko Kilileth with
the Catholic Church.
1932
June 11 The establishment of the Syro-Malankara Hierarchy by Pope Pius
XI. Mar Ivanios becomes Archbishop of Trivandrum, and Mar Theophilus Bishop of
Tiruvalla.
1933
June 1 Puthenpally Seminary is shifted to Aluva.
1950
July 18 The Portuguese Padroado over the Diocese of Cochin (from 1557
Feb. 4 till 1950 July 18) suppressed and the Diocese of Cochin handed over to
native clergy.
1950
July 25 Erection of the diocese of Palai by Pope Pius XII.
1952
Dec 28-31 Jubilee Celebration of St. Thomas and St. Francis Xavier at
Ernakulam.
1953
Nov 11 Cardinal Eugene Tisserant, secretary of the Sacred Oriental
Congregation, visits the Syrian Catholics of Malabar.
1953
Dec 31 Erection of the diocese of Tellichery by Pope Pius XII.
1956
Jan 10 Pope John XXIII raised the diocese of Changanacherry into an
Archdiocese with Kottayam and Palai as Suffragan Sees.
1956
July 29 Erection of the diocese of Kothamangalam under the Archdiocese
of Ernakulam.
1956
Nov.1 The present ‘Kerala State’ is established.
1962
Mar.31 Chanda Mission, outside Kerala, for the Syro-Malabar Church.
1962
July.3 Revised Syro-Malabar Liturgy in force. Holy Mass in
Malayalam.
1969
Mar.28 Archbishop Mar Joseph Parecattil of Ernakulam Cardinal.
1969
May All-India Seminar Church In India Today . T.En.
Conceived.
1972
Dec.27, The 19th Centenary of the Martydom of St. Thomas the Apostle is
celebrated at Ernakulam under the auspices of Catholic, Jacobite, Marthoma and
C.S.I. Churches.
1973
April 7 T.En. published by Carrdinal Parecattil at the Cardinal
House Ernakulam. H.H. Moran Mar Augen I Catholicos presided. Also on the dais
were Mar Phelexinos, Mar Mankuzhikkary, Mar Pawathil, ...
1973
July 3 The Governor of Kerala and the Cardinal release the St.
Thomas Stamp and the T.En.II for sale.
1986
Feb. 1-10 Visit of Pope John Paul II to India.
1986
Feb. 8 Fr. Chavara Kuriakose Elias and Sr. Alphonsa are proclaimed
blessed by Pope John Paul II.
1988
May. 30 Mar Antony Padiyara of Ernakulam Cardinal.
1992
Dec.16 Pope John Paul II raises the Syro-Malabar Church to a Major
Archiepiscopal Sui Juris Church with the title of Ernakulam - Angamaly Quae
Majori. His Em. Cardinal Paidyara first Major Archbp.; Archbp. Abraham
Kattumana Pontifical Delegate.
1993
May. 20-25 The first synod of the Syro-Malabar Church.
1995
May Trichur elevated to an Archbishopric.
1996 Mar Geevarghese (Varkey) Vithayathil (Major
Archiepiscopal) Apostolic Administrator. |
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