Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares

António Francisco Xavier Alvares ( born April 29, 1836 in Verna, Goa, India, † September 23, 1923 in Goa ), called Mar Julius I, was Archbishop - Metropolitan of the ( Latin ) Archdiocese of Ceylon, Goa and India within the Syrian Orthodox Church.

Life

The son of Joseph Baptista Alvares and Marino Expectao Lorenco was ordained by Bishop Walter Steins SJ, Vicar Apostolic of Bombay, to the Roman Catholic priest in 1862 or 1864. Alvares began his ecclesiastical ministry in the Archdiocese of Goa in the field of British India. As under the Popes Pius IX. and Leo XIII. the local hierarchy was reorganized to Alvares turned towards the solution of historical connection with Portugal ( Padroado ) and graduated in 1887 with a group of followers, while retaining the Latin liturgy of the Syriac Orthodox Church in India.

On 28 July 1889 he was with the permission of the Patriarch Ignatius XXXIV. Peter III. ( IV ) consecrated just there by Bishop Paul Mar Athanasius bishop of Kottayam for the independent Latin Orthodox Church of Ceylon, Goa and India (outside Malabar ). He led the official name of Mar Julius and resided first in Colombo, Sri Lanka, then. Kalynapur in and finally in Ribandar, Goa, India, where he is buried He is venerated as a saint.

1892 issued Alvares Mar Athanasius Paulos together with († 1907) from Kottayam and Mar Gregorius Gewargis († 1902) of Niraman Joseph René Vilatte episcopal ordination, rely on the apostolic succession, numerous current Old Catholic bishops outside the Union of Utrecht.