http://www.catholicity.com/encyclopedia/g/goa,archdiocese_of.html
Excerpts from above link:
"Patriarchate of the East Indies, the chief see of the Portuguese dominions in
the East; metropolitan to the present province of Goa, which comprises as
suffragans the sees of Cochin, Mylapore, and Damão (or Damaun) in India, Macao
in China, and Mozambique in East Africa. The archbishop, who resides at Panjim,
or New Goa, has the honorary titles of Primate of the East and (from 1886)
Patriarch of the East Indies. He enjoys the privilege of presiding over all
national councils of the East Indies, which must originally be held at Goa
(Concordat of 1886 between the Holy See and Portugal, art. 2). The Patronage of
the see and of its suffragans belongs to the Crown of Portugal."
"From the year 1500, missionaries of the different orders (Franciscans,
Dominicans, Jesuits, Augustinians, etc.) flocked out with the conquerors, and
began at once to build churches along the coast districts wherever the
Portuguese power made itself felt. In 1534 was created an episcopal see
suffragan to Funchal in the Madeiras, with a jurisdiction extending potentially
over all past and future conquests from the Cape of Good Hope to China in 1557
it was made an independent archbishopric, and its first suffragan sees were
erected at Cochin and Malacca. In 1576 the suffragan See of Macao (China) was
added; and in 1588, that of Funai in Japan. In 1600 another suffragan see was
erected at Angamale (transferred to Craganore in 1605) for the sake of the
newly-united Thomas Christians (see under EASTERN CHURCHES, Malabar Christians
and Uniat Church of Malabar); while, in 1606 a sixth suffragan see was
established at San Thome, Mylapore, near the modern Madras. In 1612 the prelacy
of Mozambique was added, and in 1690 two other sees at Peking and Nanking in
China. By the Bulls establishing these sees the right of nomination was
conferred in perpetuity on the King of Portugal, under the titles of foundation
and endowment."
"The limits between the various sees of India were defined by a papal Bull in
1616. The suffragan sees comprised roughly the south of the peninsula and the
east coast, as far as Burma inclusive, the rest of India remaining potentially
under the jurisdiction of the archdiocese and this potential jurisdiction was
the actually exercised even outside Portuguese dominions wherever the Faith was
extended by Portuguese missionaries. Missionary work progressed on a large
scale and with great success along the western coasts, chiefly at Chaul,
Bombay, Salsette, Bassein, Damao, and Diu; and on the eastern coasts at San
Thome of Mylapore, and as far as Bengal etc."
"After the revolution of 1834 in Portugal, the expulsion or abolition of the
religious orders, and the severing of diplomatic relations with the Vatican
came the famous Brief "Multa praeclare" on 24 April, 1838 provisionally
withdrawing jurisdiction from the three suffragan sees of Cochin, cranganore,
and Mylapore, and assigning their territories to the nearest vicars
Apostolic--at the same time implicitly, or at least by subsequent
interpretation and enactments, restricting the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese
of Goa to actual Portuguese territory. This Brief was, however, rejected by the
Goan party as spurious or at least surreptitious, since they contended that
even the Holy See could not rightly legislate in this manner without the
consent of the King of Portugal, as was declared in the original Bulls of
foundation, etc. The principles underlying this dispute fall outside the scope
of the present article, which is concerned solely with the main historical
facts. The resistance which followed, both in Bombay and in other parts of
India has uniformly been called the "Goan or Indo-Portuguese Schism" by writers
outside the Padroado party; and the term schism occurs frequently in the
pronouncements of the Holy See; but the Padroadists themselves have always
resented this title on the ground that the fault lay with the Holy See
misinformed by the vicars Apostolic, and that they were only contending for
their canonical and natural rights, etc. In 1857 a concordat was entered into
which gave peace for a time, but a final settlement was not arrived at till
1886, when a further concordat was drawn up, and a Bull ("Humanae Salutatis
Auctor", 1 Sept., 1886) issued, by which the suspended jurisdiction of Cochin
and Mylapore was restored, and a third suffragan diocese (that of Damão) added
-- all in British territory; and after subsequent adjustments the present
delimitations were agreed to. At the same time the Indian hierarchy was
established, and the whole of the country divided into provinces, dioceses, and
prefectures Apostolic."
More at:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06602a.htm
http://hamsa.org/17.htm
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Avelino
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Frederick Noronha wrote:
My friend Vincent D'Souza who runs the MYLAPORE TIMES
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had this query recently. Could anyone help?
"I need some help and leads on a small project I am working on. A
group of us is planning a volume to mark 400 years of the Diocese of
Mylapore. Now its Madras-Mylapore diocese of the Catholic church.
Since the early church began with the Portuguese and Goan priests, I
am sure there will be some substanial material in Goa which can help
us with info on the Mylapore diocese formation, the line of bishops,
the Goa Mylapore connection and the priests who hailed from Goa. When
I was in Goa for the ICPA meet last year, we did try to get across to
one organisation which researches Portuguese history. I also read that
a Portugal based orgn is helping INTACH and the Church to maintain
records and history. Will you out me on to those people, or
organisations that can help?
Some links to know more about Vincent (formerly with The Week and the BBC)
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