The Synod of Diamper, held at Udayamperoor (Kerala, India) formally united the Saint Thomas Christians with the Roman Catholic Church, and severed its direct ties with the Church of the East/Chaldean Church. Christianity is India's third-largest religion, with approximately 24 million followers constituting 2 Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings Malankara Church of India is the Christian church believed to be started by St The Syrian Malabar Nasrani people are an Ethnoreligious group from Kerala, India. This article addresses the Saint Thomas Christians and the various churches and denominations that form the Nasrani people. 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Kerala ( Malayalam: {{Kerala in Malayalam}}; India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country This article addresses the Saint Thomas Christians and the various churches and denominations that form the Nasrani people. The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East (ܥܕܬܐ ܩܕܝܫܬܐ ܘܫܠܝܚܝܬܐ ܩܬܘܠܝܩܝ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ ܕܐܬܘܪ̈ܝܐ ‘Ittā Qaddishtā wa-Shlikhāitā Qattoliqi The Chaldean Catholic Church or the Chaldean Church of Babylon (الكنيسة الكلدانية) is an Eastern particular church of the It convened on June 20, 1599 under the leadership of Aleixo de Menezes, Archbishop of Goa, to deal with the problem of Nestorianism. Events 451 - Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius ' defeats Attila the Hun. Aleixo de Menezes ( January 25, 1559 &mdash May 3, 1617) was Archbishop of Goa, Archbishop of Braga, Goa ( Konkani: गोंय /ɡɔ̃j/ is India 's smallest state in terms of area and the fourth smallest in terms of population. Nestorius Nestorius (c 386 &ndashc 451) was a pupil of Theodore of Mopsuestia in Antioch in Syria (modern At that time, changes were made to the liturgy (known as the Holy Qurbana) to make it conform to Western theology. A liturgy is the customary public worship done by a specific religious group according to their particular traditions Holy Qurbana or Qurbana Qadisha (ܩܘܪܒܢܐ ܩܕܝܫܐ qûrbānâ qadîšâ, pronounced qurbono qadisho in West Syriac) the "Holy Offering"
In general the Christians of Saint Thomas were happy to be united to the Roman Church. The result of the synod, however, was unfortunate. As the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) says:
The only case in which an ancient Eastern rite has been wilfully romanized is that of the Uniat Malabar Christians, where it was not Roman authority but the misguided zeal of Alexius de Menezes, Archbishop of Goa, and his Portuguese advisers at the Synod of Diamper (1599) which spoiled the old Malabar Rite. The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church is a Chaldean Rite Major Archiepiscopal Church in Full communion with the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1653 a group of the Saint Thomas Christians gathered at Mattancherry near Fort Kochi under the leadership of their archdeacon. Mattancherry is the western part of Kochi corporation in Ernakulam district of Kerala, south India. A municipal town from 1866 to 1967 Fort Kochi now is one of the three main urban components that constitute the present day City of Kochi in the Indian State of A position of archdeacon is a senior position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, and in some other Christian denominations above that of most They swore the Coonan Cross Oath not to obey the Jesuit missionaries. The Coonan Cross Oath was taken in 1653, by a group of Saint Thomas Christians, reacting to the persecution of their Church by the Portuguese colonials The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order Subsequently they received a bishop, Mar Gregory, from the Syriac Orthodox Church of West Syrian tradition (though the Saint Thomas Christians had been of East Syrian tradition) took the oath. The Syriac Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church based in the Middle East with members spread throughout the world
Those who accepted Mar Gregory became known as the New Party (Puthankuttukar). The Old Party (Pazhayakuttukur) remained in communion with Rome and constitutes the Syro-Malabar Church. The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church is a Chaldean Rite Major Archiepiscopal Church in Full communion with the Roman Catholic Church. Some of the Puthankuttukar, later reunited with the Roman Church on September 20, 1930 as the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (also known as Malankara Syrian Catholic Church Malankara Syriac Catholic Church)
The validity of the Synod of Diamper has been questioned in history by many scholars. In addition, the theological necessity of the changes made there is far from clear. [1]
Aleixo de Menezes, laboring under the shadow of the Reformation and the Council of Trent, was unwilling to give an inch to the customs of the Saint Thomas Christians. The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement in Europe that began in 1517 though its roots lie further back in time The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. Instead, he forged ahead with the latinisation of the St. Thomas Christians started by the Portuguese in the early Sixteenth Century. The Portuguese people (os Portugueses literally the Portuguese) are the Ethnic group or Nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west
The Syrian Christians of Eastern churches, both those in union with Rome and those not in union, view Menezes as the harbinger of the darkest era in their history. Indeed Menezes and Vasco da Gama are still seen as foreign villains who imposed Roman authority on a church with apostolic foundations and in ecclesiastical communion with Middle Eastern Christianity. Dom Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira ('vaʃku dɐ 'gɐmɐ ( Sines or Vidigueira, Alentejo, Portugal, ca The Synod of Diamper is viewed as the death knell of Nasrani independence. Nasrani is an Arabic word meaning Christian. Nasrani is generally understood to originally mean Nazarene, but in some areas
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References
- Paul Pallath, The Synod of Diamper : valid or invalid?, The Synod of Diamper Revisited, Edited by George Nedungatt S. The Goa Inquisition was the office of the Inquisition acting in the Indian state of Goa and the rest of the Portuguese empire in Asia The Syrian Malabar Nasrani people are an Ethnoreligious group from Kerala, India. The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church is a Chaldean Rite Major Archiepiscopal Church in Full communion with the Roman Catholic Church. The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (also known as Malankara Syrian Catholic Church Malankara Syriac Catholic Church) J. , Pontifico Instituto Orientale, Rome, 2001, P. 199
External links
- History of Udayamperoor Synodal Church in Malayalam
- History of the Syro-Malabar Church
- Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Thomas Christians (Archbishop Menezes and the Synod of Diamper)
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Rites
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