Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam

The archeparchy Kottayam (Latin: Archieparchia Kottayamensis ) is a located in India staff Diocese of Knananiten within the Syro -Malabar Church, based in Kottayam, Kerala.

History

Order 350 for 72 families of Jewish Christians with their leader, the rich merchant Thomas Kynai (also Thomas of Cana ), a bishop named Uraha Mar Yousef and several clerics from their Persian homeland to the Malabar coast to South India. Kynai or Kana was about 70 km south of present-day Baghdad.

In Malabar, the present Kerala, were living at that time already the problems stemming from apostolic times, going back to the missionary activity of Thomas the Apostle Thomas Christians. Also with them were strong Judeo-Christian traditions, as the Apostle had first evangelized among its settled there as a spice trader compatriots. However, the Jewish Christians mingled quickly with new Christians from the Indian population.

The immigrants under Thomas of Cana, known as " Südisten " or Knananiten, however, were strongly influenced endogamous. You schotteten as ethno- religious group strongly by the local Thomas Christians, the so-called " Nordisten " from, were only allowed to intermarry, had their own parishes and perverse largely only among their peers. So it remained under the Portuguese colonial rule and the subsequent cleavage of the entire Thomas Christians in a larger Catholic and in a smaller part autocephalous. In both camps, the Knananiten lived apart again and endogamous, they accepted as pastors only clergy from their ethnic group.

In 1887 all the Thomas Christians were generally detached from the Latin jurisdiction and for them (among Latin titular bishops ), the two Apostolic Vicariate of Trichur and Kottayam created exclusively in India, which is converted into the three Vicariate of Trichur, Ernakulam and Changanacherry 1896. In that year, first came Syro -Malabar titular bishops as apostolic vicars to the top of Sprengel.

The 1896 resolution Vicariate of Kottayam was re-established on August 29, 1911 by Pope Pius X., by virtue of the Apostolic Constitution in universi Christianized, but now as a pure staff Vicariate for the entire group of Knananiten among the Catholic Thomas Christians; this had been only own parishes in different dioceses, where they were most numerous in the area around Kottayam.

On December 21, 1923 transformed Pope Pius XI. this vicariate by the Apostolic Constitution Romani pontiffs regular diocese ( eparchy ) to; Pope Benedict XVI. it brought on 12 May 2005 archeparchy.

It is a personal diocese that - wherever they live - is responsible for all Knananiten within the Syro -Malabar Church; which, however, in the area live mostly near Kottayam.

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of Kottayam

  • Charles S. J. Lavigne, 1887-1896

Bishops of the eparchy of Kottayam

  • Alexander Chulaparambil, 1923-1951
  • Thomas Tharayil, 1951-1974
  • Kuriakose Kunnacherry, 1974-2005

Archbishops of Kottayam archeparchy

Syro-Malabar Catholic Church Order of Saint Benedict Friar Knanaya Endogamy Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Thrissur Charles Lavigne Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agra Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bangalore Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bhopal Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Delhi Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gandhinagar Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guwahati Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hyderabad Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Imphal Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madurai Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagpur Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Patna Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Raipur Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ranchi Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shillong Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Trivandrum Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Verapoly Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Tellicherry Syro-Malankara Catholic Archeparchy of Tiruvalla
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