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97 Bishop Gregory carried his opposition so far as to consecrate the leader of the faction who thwarted Mar Thomas V and this bishop took the name Cyril. However, Mar Thomas had the upper hand and imprisoned Mar Cyril, who afterwards fled to the extreme north of the Cochin State and there founded the diminutive See of Anyur or Tholyur, which exists to this day, each bishop having consecrated a successor.

The succession of bishops is as follows:-

Cyril I.

Cyril II.

Philoxenos I.

Philoxenos II.

Cyril III and Cyril IV.

98 The Romo-Syrians have a tradition which was mentioned in note 84 that in 1777 Joseph Cariatil went to Europe with overtures to Rome from Mar Thomas VI. Eight years later, on December 22nd 1785, Father Paul visited the bishop. "When I entered his chamber, I saw an old man seated among his Cattanar priests, with a long white beard, holding in his hand a silver crozier curved at the top in the Greek style, wearing a Pontifical cope, on his head a round mitre, such as the Oriental bishops wear, bearing a cross worked on it Phrygian fashion, from which a white veil flowed from head to shoulders. I tried him in a long discourse. I found him shrewd enough, talking grandly of his house and dignity, the matter of his conversion putting by for some other occasion, and striving that his nephew may succeed him. I knew the beast by its horns and, having left it, hastened on my journey."

In a letter dated May 7th 1787 from the Carmelite Vicar Apostolic of Verapoly to Propaganda, it is stated that Mar Dionysius I was willing to make his submission on the condition that he be recognised as Metropolitan of all the Syrian Christians in Malabar, not only his own flock but also the Syrians in communion with Rome.

99 The circulation of the Christian Researches was immense, the first edition of seventeen hundred copies was soon exhausted and before the end of the year 1811 three other editions had been printed. Pearson’s Memories of Dr. Buchanan, 5th edition,348. In 1812 a ninth edition had been reached. The book is now very rare and it is difficult to find a copy in Southern India.

100 Exact information about the origin of the earliest endowments is not forthcoming, because in December 1808 the records of the Resident’s office were burned by the rebellious Travancore troops, but such information as can be obtained is here noted.

Three thousand Star Pagodas were invested with the Fast India Company at 8% interest in 1808 for the benefit of the Syrian Christians and a like sum at the same interest for the benefit of the Roman Catholic Mission at Verapoly. These investments remain to this day. The Roman Catholic Archbishop at Verapoly draws the interest on one fund. The interest on the other fund is claimed both by the Jacobites and by the Reformed Syrians and this dispute is now before the district Court of Trivandrum in the form of an interpleader suit by the Secretary of State as the stakeholder. Mar. Dionysius says that the money was the amount saved by the Syrian bishop in those days, that Colonel Macaulay, in the troublous times of the Revolt of 1808 borrowed this sum from the bishop and that instead of repaying the cash the money was thus invested. This suggestion does not seem likely. The fact that a like sum was invested for a Roman Catholic Mission is against it. Another story is that these two sums were the forfeited property of a wealthy Christian named Mathu Tharakan. Yet another surmise is that these two sums were the private monies of the Resident, Colonel Macaulay, given as a thank-offering when he escaped with his life in the revolt.

In 1816 the Travancore Darbar gave Rs. 8,000 to enable the Syrian Christians to prosecute the study of the Scriptures and in 1818 the Rani gave Rs. 20,000 through the Resident, Colonel Munro, for the support of the Syrian College at Kottayam. Next year, 1819, the Rani gave Munro’s island for the benefit of the Syrians and particularly for the education of the boys in the Kottayam Seminary.

The London Missionary Society in South Travancore also received several benefactions. In 1814 the Rani gave 88 cottahs of paddy fields at Thamarakulam and Vailakulam near Cape Comorin, to the Rev. Mr. Ringletaube and his successors in office for the feeding of the poor and for educational purposes connected with the mission. In 1818 abated the annual tax on 99 Cottahs of paddy given to the Rev. Mr. Meade and his successors in office for the same charitable purpose. The same year, 1818, there was a gift of Rs. 5,000 to Mr. Mead, with which he bought 21 Cottahs of paddy fields near Vellamadum for the support of the seminary. Next year, 1819, the Rani gave 34 Cottahs of paddy lands adjoining Puthiner near Kalimar, to the Rev. Mr. Mead and his successors for the benefit of the mission.

101 At the suggestion of Colonel Munro in May 1818 the Syrian bishop received a salary from the college funds. Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society, Nineteenth year, 1818-1819. 316.

102 See on this subject the Rev. Mr. Howard’s Christians of St. Thomas and their Liturgies, pages 96-108.

103 Proceedings of C.M.S. Nineteenth year, 1818-1819, 168, note. Hough, Christianity in India, IV. 326, speaks of "the design to raise this prostrate Church from its degraded condition and weed it of the errors and superstitions which the Church of Rome had introduced into it."

104 Howard’s Christians of St. Thomas and their Liturgies, 67.

105 Whitehouse, Lingerings of Light in a Dark Land, 252, and Howard, 83.

106 The note written on this by Mar Dionysius, the present Metropolitan of the Jacobites at Kottayam, says that the conditions imposed were that the Syrian bishop was not to ordain any candidate without a certificate of fitness from a C.M.S. missionary and that the accounts of the Syrian churches were to be audited by a person appointed by the Resident, these conditions imposing a bondage to which no Christian bishop ought to submit.

107 Part of the endowments were awarded to the C.M.S. to be managed by the C.M.S. and the Resident for the benefit of the Syrians. This system of control by the Resident is obsolete and now the Resident takes no part in the management of these funds.

108 Sherring’s History of Protestant Missions in India, 316.

109 Badger’s Nestorians and their Rituals.

110 The decision pronounced in this suit was followed in 1901 in a suit by Mar Dionysius to recover possession of the Cheriapalle church in Kottayam. Two Hindu judges repeated the judgment given by the majority in the Seminary case in 1889 and Mr. Justice Hunt gave a dissentient judgment on the lines of the judgment pronounced by Mr. Justice ormsby.

There has been much irrelevant criticism of these judgments because of a want of precision in language when speaking of the consecration of bishops, and an attempt may be made to clear up this point, without any discussion whatever of the merits of the decision.

There is a difference between an irregular and an invalid consecration. Speaking generally, every bishop, as such, has the power to consecrate any priest as bishop. But it is usual that such consecration be by permission of some authority. Thus in the Latin Church at a consecration is read the Pope’s Bull permitting the consecration. So at an Anglican consecration the Royal mandate is read. In Oriental Churches the consent of the patriarch is usual. But a consecration without such permission, although it may be irregular and blameworthy, may nevertheless be a valid consecration. That is to say, the consecrand may be a bishop, although with no lawful jurisdiction over any diocese. Again, the fact that one bishop consecrated another does not of itself give to the consecrator any authority over or any power to interfere in the diocese of the consecrand. All history is full of examples. Augustine of Canterbury went to France for consecration but the French bishop claimed no rights over England. Many an Archbishop is consecrated by one of his suffragans, as here in Travancore, where the Archbishop of Verapoly was consecrated by his suffragan, the Bishop of Quilon. Even the Pope, if not already a bishop before his election, is consecrated by his suffragan, the Bishop of Ostia. Thus the mere fact that episcopal orders came from Antioch was not relied on in this litigation.

The contention put forward by Mar. Dionysius was that this is part of the Patriarchate of Antioch and that the permission of the Patriarch is necessary for a regular consecration. That is an intelligible contention. The case put forward by the defendants is that this Church and the little sister Church of Tholyur are independent Churches with power to consecrate bishops without the license of any Patriarch. That also, is a clear and intelligible contention.

111 The Jerusalem Bishopric Act was passed in 1845 to enable the consecration of Anglican bishops for places beyond the King’s dominions. Bishop Gell of Madras was of opinion that the Madras diocese could be subdivided only by Act of Parliament and the Secretary of State was unwilling to introduce such a Bill. The difficulty was got over by regarding Cochin and Travancore as places outside the Queen’s dominions and by consecrating Bishops Speechly and Hodges under the Jerusalem Bishopric Act. Thus Cochin town, Tangacheri and Anjengo are still part of the diocese of Madras. Bishop Hodges receives no salary from the Crown but a contribution of Rs. 250 per mensem is paid by the Madras Government towards the salary of a minister for Trivandrum and Quilon.

112 This phrase is twice used by Hough, Christianity in India, iv. 67,254.

113 Hough, Christianity in India, iv. 283.

114 Hough, Christianity in India. iv. 285. Hence a legend has arisen among the Christians in South Travancore that Ringletaube did not die on Earth but went up to Heaven as did Elijah. Judging from the veneration in which his memory is held, Ringletaube seems to have been of the stuff of which Apostles are made and to have had something of the spirit of St. Francis Xavier, in whose country he worked.

115 In Oriente Conquistado, ii, pages 70-74, is a description of the customs of the Thomas-Christians in which the first point mentioned is that these Christians obeyed their Archbishop in things temporal as well as in things spiritual. This habit has come down to the present day and in the eye of an official the most noteworthy figure in statistics about the Christians in Travancore is the very small number of civil disputes that come before the courts. When such disputes arise they are usually decided by priest or bishop or missionary and do not reach the courts. There is no codified law of succession among Christians in Travancore and the Christians do not wish for any such legislation. When a case does come into court it is decided in accordance with what the court finds to be the custom of the class.

116 While these sheets were in the Press I received from two Romo- Syrian priests, the Rev. E.A. Nidiry of Kuravilangod and the Rev. Father Bernard of St. Thomas of the Mannanam monastery, a manuscript of 86 pages in which it is contended that the Thomas-Christians were never Nestorians but were Chaldeans in communion with Rome and that the Portuguese, in describing them as Nestorians, made a mistake which has been handed down from one author to another. Much that is said in this manuscript I have already mentioned in the text or notes above, but the following assertions were new to me and deserve attention:-

The names of the two bishops who landed at Quilon in the ninth century ought to be Mar Sabresius and Mar Protasius. They were pious catholic Chaldean bishops and Archbishop Menezes had no ground for his suspicion that these two bishops, held in veneration by all the Thomas-Christians, were Nestorians. The mistake which the Portuguese made was to call all these Christians Nestorians, even when they were Catholics. Thus Oriente Conquistado, ii. conq. i, div. ii, end of paragraph 14, divides the Nestorians into two bodies, one under the Patriarch at Mossul, the other giving obedience to the Roman Supreme Pontiff. This ambiguity is avoided if the nomenclature used at Rome is followed and the heretics are called Nestorians while the Catholics are called Chaldeans. Two paragraphs later, in paragraph 16, Oriente Conquistado speaks of these two bishops, mar Sabresius and Mar Protasius, and makes a surmise that they may have been Nestorian heretics and that, if they were heretics, the miracles attributed to them must be fabulous. This is not the way in which history ought to be written. There always was, even in the midst of the Nestorian country, a faithful remnant who held fast to the Holy See. Pope St. Gregory III (731-741) was a Chaldean from the province of Syria. (Guriel Elementa Linguae Chaldaicae, 168). Mar John, Archbishop of the Syrians and afterwards Patriarch, went with his suffragans to Rome and received the pallium from Pope Callixtus II in the twelfth century. That Pope reigned from 1119 to 1124. (Gesta Callixti ii, Papae. Vetera Analecta Mabilloni 468.) When pope Julius III on April 6th 1553 confirmed John Sulacca as Chaldean Patriarch, the Pope said that the discipline and liturgy of the Chaldeans had already been approved by his predecessors, Nicholas I (858- 867), Leo X (1513-1521) and Clement VII (1523-1534). This Papal letter also mentions the former Patriarch, Simon Mamma, of good memory, as Patriarch of the Christians in Malabar. This shows that there were from time to time Chaldean Patriarchs in communion with Rome and it is contended that the Thomas-Christians of Malabar were in communion with these Chaldean Patriarchs and not with the Nestorian Patriarch. When the Portuguese arrived here they inaccurately called the four bishops Nestorians but these bishops were Chaldean. Their report of 1504 was addressed to the Chaldean Patriarch, else how did it find its way into the Vatican Library? The Portuguese were startled by the absence of images and by the use of leavened bread, but these two points are in accordance with Chaldean usage. The Thomas-Christians paid the expenses of Marignoli because he was Papal Delegate. St. Francis Xavier in a letter from Cochin to St. Ignatius Loyola, dated 14th January 1549, asks for Indulgences for certain churches, saying, "This would be to increase the piety of the natives who are descended from the converts of St. Thomas and are called Christians of St. Thomas." In another letter dated 28th January 1549 to Rodriguez, St. Francis Xavier asks for indulgences for a church at Cranganore, "which is very piously frequented by the Christians of St. Thomas, to be a consolation for these Christians and to increase piety." As saints are notoriously keen in detecting heresy and as indulgences cannot be granted to schismatics, it is contended that these letters of St. Francis Xavier show that the Thomas-Christians were in communion with Rome, even before the arrival of Mar Joseph in 1555. Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier, by H.J. Coleridge, S.J., ii. 74 90.

When the Portuguese deported Mar Joseph to Portugal it was not the Nestorian Patriarch but the Chaldean Patriarch who sent Mar Abraham to take his place. This appears from Action iii, Decree X of the third provincial council at Goa in 1585, which recites that Mar Abraham came as Archbishop of Angamale, with a letter from Pope Pius IV. Another point is that the letter which Pope Gregory XIII wrote on November 29th 1578 to Mar Abraham does not tell him to convert his flock, but to convert others, that is to say, those who were not Christians. The Passage is as follows:- Scis autem hoc esse firmissimum fundamentum salutis, episcopum vero non sua tantum salute contentum esse debere, sed etiam laborare, ut alios a fraude Satanae atque impietate ereptos. ad Catholicam ecclesiam atque ad Christum adjungat, inque eo ejusdem Christi adjutorem esse."

That is the theory put forward in the manuscript which these two Syrian priests have sent me. The tone is hostile to the Portuguese, but the arguments deserve consideration on their merits and, certainly, the attitude of St. Francis Xavier towards these Christians is a point which cannot easily be explained away.

From the revolt against Archbishop Garcia in 1653 the manuscript is bitterly hostile to the Carmelite missionaries. It says that Bishop Chandy brought back the greater part of the rebels and that if the Carmelite missionaries had listened to him and had selected his nephew Mattheus as Coadjutor instead of the Eurasian Raphael, all the malcontents would have returned to their obedience. When at last they got rid of Bishop Raphael, the Christians sent a message to the Chaldean Patriarch asking for a Bishop. In response to this message the Patriarch sent Mar Simon. The Carmelite missionaries made use of him to consecrate Father Angelus Francis and then sent him to Pondicherry to be out of the way.

Afterwards, in 1779, there was a golden opportunity to reconcile the separated Syrians. Mar Dionysius, their bishop, was honestly wishful for reconciliation and made repeated overtures which were rejected by the Carmelite missionaries who suspected his sincerity. The following is the text of the letter which Mar Dionysius in 1779 sent to Pope Pius VI by the hands of Dr. Joseph Cariaty:- "When I took charge, I understood from the Jacobites who came during the rule of my predecessors, as well as from the learned priests of the Roman Catholic Church, that I had not the true ordination and that the priesthood I received at the hands of my predecessors was not valid and so, ‘humbly hearkening to their admonition, in 1772 I received anew in the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Neranam all the holy orders from the tonsure to the Episcopal consecration, from the Jacobite Metropolitan, Mar Gregory. Further, I was convinced from the learned priests of the Catholic Church, as well as from the books of the Sacred Councils, that the creed I have received is not orthodox and also, that no one can be saved without the Catholic Faith, which from the days Our Lord to the present day remains spotless and immaculate. Through the medium of the abovesaid priests, I made an earnest prayer to Don Salvador dos Reis, Jesuit Archbishop of Cranganore, and to Fra Florentius of Jesus, the Carmelite Vicar Apostolic of Malabar, asking them to receive me, together with my people, into the communion of the Catholic Church and to absolve us from the excommunication which had befallen us in the days of our Fathers. And further, I asked them that in case they could not receive me, they would kindly send my request to the Apostolic See of Rome; but they refused to give attention to my prayer. So I sent for Father Joseph Cariaty, of our nationality, a student of the Propaganda College, and with tears in my eyes and with deep sorrow I revealed my mind to him and put the salvation of my soul into his hands, and he promised me, saying, ‘I shall go to Rome a second time for you, even at the risk of my life on the way.’ With him therefore I send eight other persons from among the Syrian people, of whom some are priests and others secular, to represent me before the Apostolic See and to inform the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda of my petition. So far as it lies within my power, I with my people swear before the Omnipotent God and promise to embrace and believe with our whole strength what the Catholic Church embraces and believes." In addition to writing this letter, Mar Dionysius, on June 21st 1799, in the Thathampally Romo-Syrian church, signed a document pleading himself to abide by the decrees of the synod of Diamper. (Bishop Marcellinus’ History of the Catholic Religion in Malabar. 251.) These negotiations came to nought, because the Carmelite missionaries advised Rome that Mar Dionysius was not sincere. Thus the opportunity passed, never to return, because with the English Company came the Protestant missionaries who took possession of the flock of Mar Dionysius.

Such are the opinions expressed in this manuscript. Although these opinions are controversial and will be distasteful to some readers, they are printed in this note for the information of the student of this subject.

 

Translation of extract from the proceedings of the Third Provincial Council of Goa, A.D. 1585.

 

Third Session.

The matters of the Archbishopric of Angamale and the Christianity which is called of St. Thomas, in parts of Malabar.

 

Tenth Decree.

That those who come from Chaldea shall present letters to the Archbishop, Primate of India.

Forasmuch as Our Lord had said in His Holy Gospel that he who enters the sheepfold not by the door but by some other way is a thief and a robber, and forasmuch as some persons have come from Chaldea to this Church and this Christianity and have introduced themselves as bishops, although in truth they were not so, as afterwards appeared, and have caused in it schism and troubles and as the same thing may happen again; it appears to the Council that henceforth no man can be received as a bishop or Catholic prelate or approved, unless he first presents letters addressed to the Archbishop of Goa, as primate of India and the East, and unless these letters come from His Holiness, or from a Patriarch who is a Catholic and giving obedience to the Roman Church, and is approved by it, as formerly did the Archbishop D. Mar Abraham, when he came appointed Archbishop of Angamale by Pope Pius IV of happy memory, and he who does not present such letters will be regarded as an Intruder and as such will be dragged out of the church: and the Council humbly begs His Holiness to approve this and to order the Patriarch of Chaldea to whom this pertains to issue orders likewise as this is most important for the good of this Christianity and of the Holy Roman Church.

Taken from Bullarium Patronatus Portugalliae, Lisbon: The National Press. 1872.

 

 INDEX

Abedjesus, Mar, Bishop of Xigar,..133

Abedjesus, Mar, Bishop at Trichur,..139

Abraham, Mar, Sent to India,..118

Abraham, Mar, Friendly with Jesuits,..119,131

Abraham, Mar, His death,..119

Abraham, Mar, Papal brief empowering Menezes to try,..131

Abraham, Mar, His relations with Nestorian Patriarch,..131

Abraham, Mar, Sent by Chaldean Patriarch,..142

Abuna, Title explained,..130

Adaeus, St., Apostle of the Chaldeans,..134

Adeodatus, Latin form of Ahatalla,..135

Ahatalla, Mar, Comes to India,..120

Ahatalla, Mar, His death,..120

Ahatalla, Mar, His case discussed,..132

Ahatalla, Mar, Note upon,..135

Ahatalla, Mar, Sent by Jacobite Patriarch,..139

Alfred the Great sends gifts,..114

Alleppey, a C.M.S. mission station,..124

Aloysius, Bishop,..121

Alvaeus, Andrew, His death,..122

Alvarez, Archbishop, Story of,..139

Alwaye, a C.M.S. mission station,..125

Ambalakada, Jesuits retire to,..121

Ambalakada, Seminary at,..136

Ambalakada, Printing Press at,..131

Ambrosian Rite at Milan,..127

Amsterdam, Hortus Malabaricus Printed at,..121

Amsterdam, Senate permits Carmelites to enter Malabar,..121

Amsterdam, Syrian letter wrongly delivered at,..122

Angamale, Mar Abraham, Archbishop of,..118

Angamale, Diocesan Synod of,..119

Angamale, Francis Roz appointed Bishop of,..120

Angamale, See shifted to Cranganore,..120

Angamale, Meeting of Syrian Christians at,..137

Angelus Francis, Bishop,..121

Angelus Francis, Bishop, His consecration,..136

Anglican missionaries arrive,..123

Anglican missionaries part company with Syrians,..123

Anjengo, Portuguese bishops reside at,..137

Antioch, Consecration of Mar Dionysius by Patriarch of,..124

Antioch, Decision in favour of Jacobite Patriarch of,..124

Antioch, The various Patriarchs of,..127

Antioch, Theory of Jacobites about jurisdiction of,..128

Antony Thondanattu, His story,..138

Anyur, See of,..140

Aquaviva, Father, writes to Mar Abraham,..131

Archdeacons, Note upon,..131

Archdeacon Thomas, His disputes with Archbishop Garcia,..135

Archdeacon Thomas, Note upon his revolt,..135

Askwith, C.M.S. missionary,..125

Asseman, Note upon,..129

Asseman answers La Croze,..134

Athanasius, Mar, meets Bishop Heber at Bombay,..123

Athanasius, Matthew, consecrated by Patriarch,..123

Athanasius, Matthew, Death of,..124

Attingal, Rani of persecutes Christians,..116

Attingal, A London Mission station,..126

Autonomous Church, Contention that Syrians are an,..124

 

Babylon, Nestorian Patriarch of,..114

Bailey, C.M.S. Missionary,..124

Baker, C.M.S. Missionary,..124

Baker, Henry, Junior, C.M.S. Missionary,..125

Baker, Mrs. and the Misses, Their work,..125

Baldaeus speaks of Jesuit library,..136

Baliartes, King of the Thomas Christians,..115

Banks, opened by the Salvation Army,..127

Basil, Bishop, Jacobite,..122

Basil, one of three Jabobite Bishops,..122

Basil, Archbishop, Description of,..140

Beliarte, King of the Thomas Christians,..115

Bellerby, C.M.S. Missionary,..125

Benziger, Bishop, Coadjutor, at Quilon,..138

Bernard of St. Thomas, Father, Syrian monk,..142

Bernardin, Archbishop,..121

Bishop, C.M.S. Missionary,..125

Bishop John at Council of Nicea,..114

Bishop Joseph from Edessa,..114

Bishops in partibus Infidelium,..134

Bishop, Consecration of, by one Bishop alone,..135

Bishops, Succession of among separated Syrians,..136

Bishops, Carmelite, report arrival to Dutch,..136

Blandford Miss, Her work in Trivandrum,..126

Bouttari, Father, baptises Nilakandan Pillai,..137

British Museum, Jesuit letters in,..132

Brito, Stephen de, Archbishop of Cranganore,..120,134

Brito, B. John de, The Madura martyr,..137

Buchanan, Dr. Claudius,..121

Buchanan’s Christian Researches,..123,124

Buchanan, His Life by Pearson,..130

Burnell, Dr., His Gnostic theory,..128

 

Cabral, Portuguese Admiral, visists Cochin,..116

Calcutta, Bishop of, had jurisdiction in Travancore,..125

Caley, Archdeacon, C.M.S. Missionary,..125

Callixtus II, Pope,..142

Cana, Thomas, Note upon,..128

Careatil, Joseph, Archbishop of Cranganore,..134,137

Carmelites sent to Malabar,..120

Carmelites, expelled by the Dutch,..120,121

Carmelites, Expulsion cancelled,..121

Carmelite bishops report arrival to Dutch,..136

Carmel, Mount, Bishop Francis retires to,..121

Carvalho, Father Simon,..137

Chaldean Patriarch asked to send a bishop,..121

Chaldeans, SS. Adaeus and Meris. Apostles of,..133

Chaldean Rite Permission to use refused,..134

Chaldean Patriarch, Syrian Christians look towards the,..137

Chaldean Patriarch, Note upon the,..138

Chaldean bishop comes to India,..138

Chaldean claim to jurisdiction rejected at Rome,..138

Chaldeans, Syrian Christians said to be,..141

Chandy, Bishop, alias Alexander a Campo,..120

Chandy, Bishop, appointed Vicar Apostolic,..120

Chandy, Bishop, His nephew Mattheus,..134

Chandy, Bsihop, His consecration discussed,..135

Chandy, Bishop, signs as Metropolitan of all India,..136

Chandy, Bsihop, His death,..136

Changanacheri, Vicar Apostolic of,..122

Chapman, C.M.S. missionary,..125

Chattiata church, Foundation of,..121

Chattiata church exempted from episcopal jurisdiction,..136

Cheamgurechil, Administrator of Cranganore,..134

Cheruman Perumal, Ruler of Cranganore,..114

Cheruman Perumal, Note upon,..128

Chorepiscopus, Meaning of title,..139

Christians, Syrian, where found,..113

Christians, Syrain, origin of name,..113

Christians, of St. Thomas,..113

Church Missionary Society, sends missionaries,..124

Cochin, Diocese of,..116,121

Coleridge, His Life of St. Francis Xavier,..130

College endowed at Kottayam,..124

Collins, C.M.S. missionary,..125

Comphocius, King, mentioned by Mar Thomas,..139

Concordat of 1886,..121

Consecration of Bishop Chandy by one bishop,..120

Consecration of Bishop Angelus by Chaldean bishop,..121

Consecration of Mar Dionysius I,..122

Consecration of Bishop Joseph discussed,..135

Consecration of Bishop Chandy discussed,..135

Consecration of Bishop Angelus discussed,..136

Consecration of Thondanattu Antony,..138

Consecration of Alvarez and Suarez,..139

Consecration of Mar Cyril,..140

Consecration of bishops discussed,..141

Consecration of Anglican bishop,..141

Copper plate grants at Kottayam,..114

Copper plate grants from Cheruman Perumal,..128

Copper plate grants now at Kottayam, Note upon,..129

Cosmas Indicopleustes visits this coast,..114

Councils, Church, in the C.M.S. mission,..125

Councils, Church, of the London Mission,..127

Cox, Rev. John,..126

Cranganore, St. Thomas lands at,..113

Cranganore, Thomas Cana arrives at,..114

Cranganore, Stone cross removed from,..114

Cranganore, Copper plate mentioning,..114

Cranganore, Mar Jacob translates testament at,..116

Cranganore, Seminary at,..116

Cranganore Seminary, Mar Joseph refuses to ordain at,..118

Cranganore made See of an Archbishop,..120

Cranganore, Archbishop of, Ad honorem,..122

Cranganore, New Testament translated at,..130

Cranganore, Archbishops of,..134

Cranganore, Jesuit library at,..136

Crosses on stone at Kottayam,..114

Croze, La, His Christianisme auae Indes,..134

Cullen, General, Resident,..123

Custodius, Bishop,..121

Cyril, Mar, sent by Patriarch of Antioch,..123

Cyril, Mar, Reappearance of,..124

Cyril, Bishops named,..140

 

Damaun, Bishop of, Archbishop of Cranganore,..122

Denha Bar Jona, Chaldean priest,..138

Denha, Bishop, killed by Kurds,..139

Deportation of Mar Athanasius,..123

Devasagayam, Martyrdom of,..137

Dhariyakal, Name explained,..128

Diamper, King of,..115

Diamper, Synod of,..120

Diamper, Synod of, Archdeacon Robinson upon the,..127

Diamper, Synod of, discussed,..133

Diamper, Synod of, Asseman upon the,..134

Diarbekr, Residence of Jacobite Patriarch,..120

Diego, Archbishop, of Cranganore,..134

Dionysius I, Mar, Paulinus visits,..140

Dionysius, Mar, consecrated by Patriarch,..124

Dionysius, Mar, resides at Kottayam,..124

Donato, Father Francis, Dominican,..120

Dutch did no mission work,..113

Dutch expel missionaries from Cochin,..120

Duthie, Rev. J.,..126

 

Ebedjesus, Chaldean Patriarch,..118,138

Edessa, Bishop Joseph comes from,.114

Edessa, Relics of Apostle taken to,..114

Elias X, Nestorian Patriarch,..139

Endowments, Origin of,..140

Endowments, obtained by Colonel Munro,..123

English take Cochin,..122

Ephesus, Council of,..128

Ernaculam, High school at,..122

Eruaculam, Vicar Apostolic of,..122

Ettumanur, a C.M.S. Mission station,..125

Eugene, Monastery of St.,..115

Eutyches, His teaching,..127

Ezechiel, a Cochin Jew,..122,140

 

Fells, Surgeon at Neyoor,..126

Fenn, C.M.S. missionary,..124

Fifth bishop, The phrase discussed,..140

Fisher converts, Their bravery,..130

Fishermen of Ramnad send deputation,..116

Florentius, Bishop,..121

Francis, Bishop,..121,137

Francis Roz, His work among the Syrian Christians,..120

Francis Xavier, enters Travancore,..116

Francis Xavier, writes about Cranganore Seminary,..116

Francis Xavier, writes about Mar Jacob,..118

Francis Xavier, His Life and Letters,..130

French-Adams, C.M.S. missionary,..125

Frumentius, Bishop, Note upon,..129

Fry, Surgeon at Neyoor,..126

 

Gabriel, Nestorian bishop,..122,139

Gama, Vasco de, visits Cochin,..116

Garcia, Francis, Archbishop of Cranganore,..120,121,134

Geddes, His Church in Malabar,..131,133

George, The Syrian form of the name,..129

George, companion of Joseph the Indian,..115

George, Archdeacon, first mentioned,..118

George, Bishop of Palur,..119

George, Archdeacon, makes profession at Vaipin,..132

George, Archdeacon, Administrator of Angamale,..119

George, Archdeacon, attempts to visit Hill tribes,..133

George, Archdeacon, disputes with Archbishop Francis Roz,..120

George, Archdeacon, His death,..120

George, Chorepiscopus,..140

Gnostic origin of Syrian Christians discredited,..128

Goa, Archbishop of Patriarch of East Indies,..122

Goa, Inquisition at,..120,133,135

Goa, First council of,..118

Goa, Second council of,..118

Goa, Third council of,..119,143

Goa, Fourth council of,..119

Gouvea gives translation of Syrian Mass,..134

Gregory III, Pope, a Syrian,..142

Gregory, Mar, consecrates Archdeacon Thomas,..120,139

Gregory, Mar,..122

Gundra, Raja of ,..133

 

Hanxleden, Father, Sanscrit scholar,..136

Hawkesworth, C.M.S. missionary,..125

Heber, Bishop, befriends Mar Athanasius,..123

Hereditary succession of Archdeacons disliked at Rome,..136

Hierapolis, Titular See of Bishop Joseph,..135

Hill tribes, Conversion of,..133

Hodges, Bishop,..125

Hormisdas, St. Title of church at Angamale,..119

Hormisdas, St. Note upon,..131

Hortus Malabaricus, Publication of,..120

Howard, Father, afterwards Cardinal,..138

Hunt, Mr. Justice, His judgment,.

 

Ignatius Loyola, Letter from Francis Xavier to,..116

Ignatius XXIII, Patriarch of Antioch,..120

Ignatius XXXII, Patriarch of Antioch,..123

Ignatius XXXIII, visits Travancore,..124

Independent Catholic Church of India and Ceylon,..139

Iniquitribirim, name used by Francis Xavier for Raja,..130

Inquisition at Goa,..120,133

Intruder, name given to Archdeacon Thomas,..135

 

Jacob, Mar, sent to India,..115

Jacob, Mar, translates the New Testment,..116

Jacob, Mar, Francis Xavier writes about,..118

Jacob, Mar, His death,..118

Jacob, Vicar General of Mar Simeon,..119

Jacobite Syrians, under Patriarch of Antioch,..113

Jacobite opinions,..113

Jacobite bishops, Three arrive at Cochin,..122

Jacobites, origin of name,..127

Jacobite views about jurisdiction,..128

Jacobites, Liturgy used by,..134

Jacobites, Why they sent bishops to Malabar,..139

James, St. Liturgy of,..134

Jarri, Father Peter, cited,..128

Jerusalem Bishopric act,..141

Jessop, Dr. on the destruction of books,..133

Jesuits, Their friendship with Mar Abraham,..131

Jesuit letters in British Museum,..132

John, Bishop of Great India,..114

John, Bishop in the twelfth century,..114

John of Monte Corvino,..114

John de Marignoli,..115

John, Mar, sent to India,..115

John Sulacca, Chaldean Patriarch,..118

John Baptist. Bishop,..121

John, one of three Jacobite bishops,..122

John, a Jacobite bishop,..122

John, Bishop, suspected to be a Jew,..122,140

John, Patriarch of the Syrians,..141

Jordan, Friar, Bishop of Quilon,..115,129

Joseph, Bishop from Edessa,..114

Joseph the Indian, appears before Patriarch,..115

Joseph the Indian, journeys to Europe,..116

Joseph the Indian, His authority discredited,..116

Joseph the Indian, Note upon,..130

Joseph, Mar, sent to India,..118

Joseph, Mar, returns to India,..118

Joseph, Mar, Preface written by,..131

Joseph, Mar, Portuguese hold bad opinion of,..131

Joseph, Mar, His death,..131

Joseph, Father, Carmelite missionary,..120

Joseph, Father, consecrated at Rome,..120

Joseph, Father, His consecration discussed,..135

Joseph Careatil, Archbishop of Cranganore,..134,137

Joseph II, Chaldean Patriarch,..136

Joseph VI, Chaldean Patriarch,..138,139

Joseph, afterwards Mar Dionysius,..124

 

Kalliana, bishop at,..114

Kayankulam, Varthema visits,..130

Kerr, Madras Chaplain, His report,..122

Knill, Rev. Richard,..126

Koshi, Anglican Archdeacon,..125

Kottayam, Vicar Apostolic of,..122

Kottayam, College at, awarded to Syrians,..123

Kottayam, Residence of Jacobite Metropolitan,..124

Kottar, Chruch erected at,..130

Kunnankulam, a C.M.s. mission station,..125

 

Lace, Manufacture of at Nagercoil,..130

La Croze, His Christianisme auae Indes,..134

Languages, Chaldean and Syriac,..138

Lannoy, General Eustache de,..137

Lash, C.M.S. missionary,..125

Latin Rite, Note on,..127

Lavigne, Bishop, Vicar Apostolic,..122

Leitch, Dr. His death,..126

Leonard, Archbishop,..121,122

Leopold I, Emperor,..121

Letter from Mar Thomas to Jacobite Patriarch,..139

Letter from Mar Dionysius I to Pope Pius VI,..142

Leyden, University of,..122

Liturgy used by Jacobites,..124

Liturgy used by the Thomas Christians,..133

Liturgy attributed to St. Thomas,..134

Liturgies used by Jacobities,..134

London Missionary Society,..126

Louis of St. Conrad, Bishop,..135

Lowe, Surgeon at Neyoor,..126

 

Macaulay, Colonel, Resident,..123

Macaulay, Colonel, finds the copper plates,..129

Macaulay, Colonel, flies to Cochin,..130

Macaulay, Colonel, provides endowments,..141

Madhava Rao, Diwan of Tranvancore,..126

Madura troops retreat before St. Francis Xavier,..130

Mailapur, scene of Martyrdom of Apostle,..113

Mailapur, Relics of Apostle taken from,..114

Mailapur, Friar Odoric visits,..115

Mailapur, Ahatalla arrested at,..135

Malayalam history by Bishop Marcellinus,..139

Maltby, Mr., Resident, on Bishop Roccos,..138

Manichean persecution,..128

Manigramakar, Name explained,..128

Mannanam, Monastery at,..122

Mar, Title explained,..130

Mar Sapir and Mar Prodh,..114

Marcellinus, Bishop,..121,122,139

Marco Polo mentions Malabar,..114

Mardin, Monastery at,..127

Marignoli, John de, visits Quilon,..115

Martyrdom of Devasagayam,..137

Mass used by the Syrian Christians,..134

Matancheri, Oath before the Coonen cross at,..120

Mateer of the London Mission, His writings,..126

Mathu Tharakan, wealthy Syrian Christian,..141

Mattheus, Father, Carmelite, Botanist,..120

Mattheus, nephew of Bishop Chandy,..121,134,136

Mault, Mrs., commences the lace industry,..127

Mavelicara, a C.M.S. mission station,..125

Mead, Rev. C.,..126

Medical work of Salvation Army,..127

Medlycott, Bishop, Vicar Apostolic at Trichur,..122

Medlycott, Bishop, writing on St. Thomas,..127

Medlycott, Bishop, His note on copper plates,..128

Medlycott, Bishop, His note on printing presses,..131

Medlycott, Bishop, sends extracts from British Museum,..132

Menezes, Archbishop, refuses to have Mar Simeon,..119

Menezes, Archbishop, lands in India,..119

Menezes, Archbishop, visits the Angamale diocese,..119

Menezes, Archbishop, holds the synod of Diamper,..120

Menezes, Archbishop, at Tevalicare,..129

Menezes, Archbishop, His reasons for visiting Malabar,..132

Menezes, Archbishop, His conduct discussed,..133

Menezes Archbishop, His alteration of liturgy,..133

Menezes, Archbishop, His destruction of books,..133

Menezes, Archbishop, Reasons for altering liturgy,..134

Mellus, Bishop, Story of,..139

Meris, St. Apostle of the Chaldeans,..133

Metropolitan appointed for India,..114

Meurin, Bishop, visits Malabr,..139

Middleton, Bishop, of Calcutta,..121

Milan, Ambrosian Rite at,..127

Miller, Rev. C.,..126

Milne Rae, Professor, His Syrian Church in India,..133

Missionary, Church, Society,..126

Missionary, London, Society,..124

Mitras Lusitanas cited about Ahatalla,..135

Monastic Institutions among Syrians,..122

Monophysite doctrine described,..127

Monte Corvino, John of,..114

Mozarabaic Rite at Toledo,..127

Mulanturuttu, Synod of,..124

Multa Praeclara, Bull commencing with the words,..137

Mundakayam, a C.M.S. mission station,..125

Munro, Colonel, Resident,..123,124

Munro, Colonel, His benefits to the London Mission,..126

Munro, Colonel, provides endowments,..141

Munro’s Island,..141

Muttam, Fatal accident at.,..126

 

Nagercoil, a London Mission station,..126

Nagercoil, London Mission school at,..126

Nayars, Revolt of,..130

Neale, Dr. J.M., His note on St. Hormisdas,..131

Neale, Dr. J.M., His views on liturgies,..133,134

Neranam, Old church at,..127

Nestorian heresy,..113,128

Nestorian bishops in India,..115,141

Nestorians seek reconciliation with Rome,..118,138

Nestorian Bishop Gabriel,..122

Nestorian Patriarch consecrates Thondanattu Antony,..138

Nestorians, Contention that Syrian Christians never were,..141

Neve, C.M.S. missionary,..125

New Observers, Followers of Archdeacon Thomas,..135

Neyoor, a London Mission station,..126

Nicea, Council of,..114

Nidiry, Rev. E.A., Syrian priest,..141

Nilakandan Pillai afterwards Devasagayam,..137

Nobili, Robert de, His works printed,..131

Norton, C.M.S. missionary,..124

North and South, Division of Syrian Christians,..129

Nosardel Sunday explained,..129

 

Odoric, Friar, visits Quilon,..115

Old Observers, Name applied to Rome-Syrians,..135

Ordinations among the C.M.S. converts,..125

Oriente Conquistado, Note on book named,..131

Ormsby, Mr. Justice, His judgment,..124

Orphanages of Salvation Army,..127

 

Padroado or Portuguese Patronage,..121,137

Pallam. a C.M.S. mission station,..125

Palmer, C.M.S. missionary,..125

Palomattam family,..128

Parachalay, a London Mission station..126

Pareamakal, Thomas, Vicar General of Cranganore,..134,137

Patriarch Theodosius,..114

Patriarch Salibazacha,..114

Patriarch Jesujabus Adjabenus,..114

Patriarch Simeon,..115

Patriarch Elias,..115

Patriarch Simeon,..118

Patriarch John Sulacca,..118

Patriarch Ebedjesus,..118

Patriarch Simeon VI,..118

Patriarch Ignatius XXIII,..121

Patriarch Ignatius XXXII,..123

Patriarch Ignatius XXXIII,..124

Patriarch Joseph II,..136

Patriarch Joseph VI,..138

Patriarchs, The various, of Antioch..127

Patriarch of the East Indies, Archbishop of Goa,..122

Patronage of Portuguese King, Note upon the,..137

Paul of St. Thomas, Archbishop of Cranganore,..134

Paulinus of St. Bartholomew, Note upon,..137

Pazhaiur church, Father Hanxleden’s grave at,..136

Pearson’s Life of Clandius Buchanan,..130

Peet. C.M.s. missionary,..125

Perron, Anquetil du, visits Verapoly,..129,137

Persecution of London Mission converts,..126

Persecution by Manicheans,..128

Persecution by Jesuits doubted,..135

Persia, Bishops obtained from,..114

Persico, Mgr, comes to Verapoly,..139

Perumal, Cheruman, Note upon,..128

Peter Paul, Bishop,..121

Pillar formerly at Quilon, Note upon,..129

Pimenta, Father, writes to Aquaviva,..132

Pimental, Archbishop of Cranganore,..134

Pimental, Archbishop, completes Malayalam dictionary,..136

Philoxenos, Mar, gives consecration,..123,124

Philoxenos, Mar, Death of,..123,125

Philoxenos, Bishops named,..140

Pope Nicholas I,..142

Pope Gregory III, a Syrian,..142

Pope Nicholas IV,..114

Pope Callixtus II,..142

Pope John XXII,..115

Pope Eugene IV,..115

Pope Alexander VI,..116

Pope Julius III,..118,138,142

Pope Pius IV,..118,142

Pope Pius V,..118

Pope Gregory XIII,..118,142

Pope Clement VII,..142

Pope Clement VIII,..119,120

Pope Alexander VII,..120

Pope Leo X,..142

Pope Innocent XII,..121

Pope Clement XI,..121

Pope Pius VI,..142

Pope Leo XII,..121

Pope Gregory XVI,..121,137

Pope Pius IX,..122

Pope Leo XIII,..121

Polycarp, Father, Provincial at Verapoly,..140

Porcat, Raja of,..133

Portuguese arrive in Inida,..116

Portuguese patronage of missions,..121,137

Portuguese mistaken about Nestorians,..142

Prendergast, Bishop,..121

Printing presses, of the C.M.S.,..124

Printing presses, of the London Mission,..127

Printing presses, Bishop Medlycott’s note on,..131

Protection, Portuguese, of Thomas Christians,..116,133

Protestant converts of three Societies,..113

Protestant view of Syrian Chrisitans,..113

Protestant view of Synod of Diamper,..128

Propaganda builds a Seminary at Verapoly,..136

Propaganda requires education in Seminaries,..137

Protasius, Mar, a Chaldean bishop,..141

Pulayas, Work among, by C.M.S.,..125

Pulayas, Work among by Salvation Army,..127

Puttempally, Seminary at,..122

 

Quilon, not the Kalliana of Cosmas Ind.,..114


Quilon, Two bishops land at,..114

Quilon, Copper plate mentioning,..114

Quilon, Friar Jordan Bishop of,..115

Quilon, John de Marignoli visits,..115

Quilon, Archbishop Menezes visits,..119

Quilon, a separate diocese,..121

Quilon, Boundaries of diocese of,..122

Quilon, Committee of,..123

Quilon, Pillar formerly at, Note upon,..129

Quilon, List of bishops at,..138

 

Ramsay, Surgeon at Nagercoil,..126

Raphael, Bishop,..121

Raymond Bishop,..121

Reformed Syrians, Body so called,..113,127

Reformed Syrians, Opinions held by,..113

Reformed Syrians, Succession of Bishops of,..124

Reis, Salvador dos, Archbishop of Cranganore,..134

Report of Nestorian Bishops from India,..115

Ribeiro, Archbishop, of Cranganore,..121,134,136

Richards, Rev. W.J., gets a Lambeth degree,..125

Ridsdale, C.M.S. missionary,..125

Ringletaube Rev. W.T.,..126,142

Rite, Syro-Malabar,..127

Rites, Oriental, Note on,..127

Rite, Syro-Malabar, kept distinct,..134

Roberts, Headmaster of schools,..126

Robinson, Archdeacon,..127,130

Roccos, Bishop,..122,138

Roman Catholic, Syrian and Latin Rites,..113,127

Roman Catholic Statistics,..122

Romo-Syrians, Roman Catholics following Syrian Rite,..113

Romo-Syrians desire a Chaldean bishop,..121

Romo-Syrians obtain a separate bishop,..121

Roz, Francis, Archbishop of Cranganore,..119,133,134

 

Saba, Mgr., comes to India,..138

Sabresius, Mar, a Chaldean bishop,..142

Salamanca Theologians on consecration of Bishop Chandy,..135

Salvation Army,..127

Sanscrit, Father Hanxleden studies,..136

Sanscrit, grammar published,..137

Sceptre of Christian King,..115,116

Schaaf, Dr. Charles, Orientalist,..122,140

Scherpenzeel, Vicar General of Cranganore,..134

Seleucia, the See of Patriarch of Babylon,..114,128

Seminary at Cranganore,..116,118

Seminary at Vaipicotta,..119

Seminaries, Domestic, prohibited,..119

Seminary at Verapoly,..136

Seminary at Puttempally,..122

Seminary at Ambalacade,..136

Separation between Syrians and C.M.S.,..125

Serra, Christians of the, Name explained,..130

Serroni, Canon, in charge of Cranganore,..120

Seven churches founded by St. Thomas,..127

Shanars embrace Christianity,..126

Shankarapuri family, now extinct,..128

Simeon, Mar, a Nestorian bishop,..119,131,133

Simeon, Mar, a Chaldean bishop,..121,136

Smith, Rev. John,..126

Society, Church Missionary,..124

Society, London Missionary,..126

Soledad, Joseph, Administrator of Cranganore,..137

Speechly. Bishop,..125

Spencer, Bishop, of Madras,..125

St. Thomas landed at Cranganore,..113

St. Thomas ordained clergy,..113

St. Thomas, His relics taken to Edessa,..114

Stabilini, Bishop,..121

Statistics of Roman Catholic dioceses,..122

Statistics of the C.M.S.,..125

Statistics of the London Mission,..127

Statistics of the Salvation Army,..127

Stephen, Bishop, sent by Patrairch of Antioch,..123

Stephen de Brito, visits Hill tribes,..133

Stone found in China, Note upon,..129

Suarez, Bishop, Story of,..139

Suit between Jacobites and Reformed Syrians,..124

Synod of Diamper, Asseman discusses the,..134

Syrian Christians, where found,..113

Syrian Christians, origin of name,..113

Syrian Christians, There divisions of,..113

Syrian Christians, Theories concerning,..113

Syrian Christians, Division into North and South,..129

Syrian Christians have a king,..115

Syrian Christians become vassals of Portuguese King,..116

Syrian Christians hold synod of Diamper,..120

Syrian Christians, Revolt and partial reconciliation of,..120

Syrian Christians, Monastic Institutions among,..122

Syrian Christians good fighting men,..130

Syrian Christians, Their dislike of Roman ritual,..133

Syrian Christians, Mass used by,..134

Syrain Christians, Succession of bishops among,..136

Syrian Christians look towards the Chaldean Patriarch,..137

Syrian Christians, said never to have been Nestorian,..142

Syrians, Reformed, Name why used,..127

Syrians, Reformed, Their alterations of liturgy,..124

Syro-Malabar Rite,..127,134

 

Tamburan, a term of respect,..130

Tamil, spoken by St. Francis Xavier,..130

Testament, Old, Translated by Mar Joseph,..131

Theodosius, Rules laid down by Patriarch,..114

Theologians on consecration of Bishop Chandy,..135

Tholyur, See of,..140

Thomas, St. Seven churches founded by,..127

Thomas, St. Liturgy attributed to,..134

Thomas Christians, Name used by Syrian Christians,..127

Thomas Cana,..114,128

Thomas, Mar, sent to India by Patriarch,..115

Thomas, Archdeacon,..120,135

Thomas de Castro. Note upon,..135

Thomas, Mar. Visscher’s description of,..139

Thomas Pareamakal,..134,137

Thomas, Mar, succeeds Athanasius,..124

Thomson, Surgeon at Neyoor,..126

Thompson, of the London Mission,..124

Thompson, C.M.S. missionary,..125

Thompson, Rev. Marmaduke, Chaplain in Madras,..126

Thondanattu Antony, Story of,..138

Tiruvella a Church Mission station,..125

Tittuvilai, a London Mission station,..126

Titular Sees,..134

Titus, Mar Thoma,..124

Toledo, Mozarabaic Rite at,..127

Trevandrum, Enquiry held at,..137

Trevandrum in the Quilon diocese,..139

Trevandrum, Zenana Mission School at,..126

Trevelyan, Sir Charles, Governor of Madras,..126

Tribes on the mountains,..133

Trichur, Vicar Apostolic at,..122

Trichur, a C.M.S. Station,..125

Trichur, Sanscrit College at,..136

Turner, Dr. Percy, of the Salvation Army,..127

 

Vadasseri, Head-quarters of Salvation Army,..127

Vaipicotta, Printing press and college at,..119

Vaipin, Archdeacon George makes profession of faith at,..119

Vaipin, The meeting at. described,..132

Valiathoray, in the Cochin diocese,..139

Valignano, Father, Jesuit Provincial,..119,131

Vanischt, Name of Bishop Genrad,..135

Van Rheede, Governor of Cochin,..120

Vasconcelles, Archbishop, of Cranganore,..134

Vasconcelles, Bishop, of Cochin,..137,138

Varthema, an Italian traveller,..130

Vatican Library, Report of Nestorian bishops,..115

Vatican Library, New Testament of Mar Jacob,..116

Vatican Library, Mar Joseph’s manuscripts,..118

Vatican Council, Chaldean Patriarch at,..139

Vaz, Miguel, works among the fishermen,..116

Verapoly, Building of Church at,..121

Verapoly, List of Vicars-Apostolic at,..135

Verapoly, Seminary built at,..136

Verapoly reached by Mysore troops,..137

Vincent de Lagos founds Seminary at Cranganore.,..118

Vinte e Tres de Norembro, Cochin Diocesan paper,..135

Visscher, His Letters from Malabar,..139

 

Wilson, Bishop, of Calcutta,..123,125

Whitehouse, Rev. J. C.,..127

 

Xigar, Bishop of.,..133

 

Zanana, Church of England, Mission,..126

Zuba, Metropolitan of,.133


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