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The Coonan Cross Oath, also known as the Great Oath of Bent Cross, the Leaning Cross Oath or the Oath of the Slanting Cross, taken on 3 January 1653 in Mattancherry, was a public avowal by members of the Saint Thomas Christians of the Malabar region in India, that they would not submit to the Jesuits and Latin Catholic hierarchy, nor accept Portuguese dominance (Padroado) in ecclesiastical and secular life.[1]

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  1. 71 relations: Ahatallah, Aleixo de Menezes, Alexandria, Angamaly Padiyola, Anjilimoottil Itty Thommen Kathanar, Carmelites, Chaldean Syrian Church, Chennai, Church Mission Society, Church of South India, Church of the East, Clerical celibacy, Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Dietmar W. Winkler, Dyophysitism, Early Christianity, East Syriac Rite, Eastern Christianity, First Council of Nicaea, Francisco Ros, Full communion, Goa, Goa Inquisition, Gregorios Abdal Jaleel, István Perczel, Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, Jerome, Jesuits, Kadavil Chandy, Kingdom of Cochin, Kochi, Latin Church, Liturgical Latinisation, Liturgy, Malabar Coast, Malabar Independent Syrian Church, Malankara Church, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Malankara–Persian ecclesiastical relations, Malayalam calendar, Mar Hormizd Syro-Malabar Cathedral, Angamaly, Mar Thoma Syrian Church, Mattancherry, Miaphysitism, Nestorianism, Netherlands, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Our Lady of Life Church, Mattancherry, Padroado, Palliveettil Chandy, ... Expand index (21 more) »

  2. 1653 in Christianity
  3. 1653 in India
  4. 17th century in Portuguese India
  5. 17th-century Eastern Catholicism
  6. Catholic Church in India
  7. Church of the East in India
  8. Mattancherry
  9. Oriental Orthodoxy in India
  10. Political uprisings in India
  11. Portuguese in Kerala
  12. Religious oaths

Ahatallah

Ahatallah (1590 – c. 1655) was a Syrian bishop chiefly known for his trip to India in 1652. Coonan Cross Oath and Ahatallah are Oriental Orthodoxy in India.

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Aleixo de Menezes

Archbishop Aleixo de Menezes or Alexeu de Jesu de Meneses (25 January 1559 – 3 May 1617) was a Catholic prelate that served as Archbishop of Goa, Archbishop of Braga and Viceroy of Portugal during the Philippine Dynasty.

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Alexandria

Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.

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Angamaly Padiyola

Angamāly Padiyōla is a historic declaration of the Syrian Catholic/ Syro Malabar (Paḻayakūṟ) Saint Thomas Christians proclaimed in 1787 at the Great Church of Saint George in Angamāly. Coonan Cross Oath and Angamaly Padiyola are Catholic Church in India, church of the East in India, history of Kerala and Portuguese in Kerala.

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Anjilimoottil Itty Thommen Kathanar

Anjilimoottil Itty Thommen Kathanar (d. 10 May 1659) was a Kathanar (Syriac priest) of the Knanaya community of Kerala during the time of Portuguese persecution.

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Carmelites

The Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Ordo Fratrum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ de Monte Carmelo; abbreviated OCarm), known as the Carmelites or sometimes by synecdoche known simply as Carmel, is a mendicant order in the Roman Catholic Church for both men and women.

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Chaldean Syrian Church

The Chaldean Syrian Church of India (Classical Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ ܕܐܬܘܖ̈ܝܐ; Malayalam: / Kaldaya Suriyani Sabha) is an Eastern Christian denomination, based in Thrissur, in India. Coonan Cross Oath and Chaldean Syrian Church are church of the East in India.

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Chennai

Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.

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Church Mission Society

The Church Mission Society (CMS), formerly known as the Church Missionary Society, is a British Anglican mission society working with Christians around the world.

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Church of South India

The Church of South India (CSI) is a united Protestant Church in India.

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Church of the East

The Church of the East (''ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā''.) or the East Syriac Church, also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church or the Nestorian Church, is one of three major branches of Nicene Eastern Christianity that arose from the Christological controversies of the 5th and 6th centuries, alongside the Miaphisite churches (which came to be known as the Oriental Orthodox Churches) and the Chalcedonian Church (whose Eastern branch would later become the Eastern Orthodox Church).

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Clerical celibacy

Clerical celibacy is the requirement in certain religions that some or all members of the clergy be unmarried.

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Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples was a congregation of the Roman Curia of the Catholic Church in Rome, responsible for missionary work and related activities.

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Dietmar W. Winkler

Dietmar Werner Winkler (born April 15, 1963, in Wolfsberg in Carinthia) is an Austrian scholar of patristics and ecclesiastical history.

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Dyophysitism

Dyophysitism (from Greek: δυοφυσιτισμός "two natures") is the Christological position that Jesus Christ is one person of one substance and one hypostasis, with two distinct, inseparable natures, divine and human.

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Early Christianity

Early Christianity, otherwise called the Early Church or Paleo-Christianity, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325.

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East Syriac Rite

The East Syriac Rite, or East Syrian Rite (also called the Edessan Rite, Assyrian Rite, Persian Rite, Chaldean Rite, Nestorian Rite, Babylonian Rite or Syro-Oriental Rite), is an Eastern Christian liturgical rite that employs the Divine Liturgy of Saints Addai and Mari and utilizes the East Syriac dialect as its liturgical language.

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Eastern Christianity

Eastern Christianity comprises Christian traditions and church families that originally developed during classical and late antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean region or locations further east, south or north.

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First Council of Nicaea

The First Council of Nicaea (Sýnodos tês Nikaías) was a council of Christian bishops convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I. The Council of Nicaea met from May until the end of July 325.

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Francisco Ros

Francisco Ros, S.J (1559–1624) was a Jesuit prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Angamaly-Cranganore, associated with the Saint Thomas Christians in the early modern Malabar in South India.

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Full communion

Full communion is a communion or relationship of full agreement among different Christian denominations or Christian individuals that share certain essential principles of Christian theology.

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Goa

Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.

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Goa Inquisition

The Goa Inquisition (Inquisição de Goa) was an extension of the Portuguese Inquisition in Portuguese India. Coonan Cross Oath and Goa Inquisition are 17th century in Portuguese India and Catholic Church in India.

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Gregorios Abdal Jaleel

Mor Gregorios Abdal Jaleel Bawa (died 27 April 1681) was the Syriac Orthodox Bishop of Jerusalem from 1664 until his death in 1681. Coonan Cross Oath and Gregorios Abdal Jaleel are Oriental Orthodoxy in India.

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István Perczel

István Perczel (born 1957) is a Hungarian scholar of Byzantine history and early Christianity and a hyperpolyglot.

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Jacobite Syrian Christian Church

The Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, or the Syriac Orthodox Church in India, is a Maphrianate of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch based in Kerala, India and part of the Oriental Orthodox Church. Coonan Cross Oath and Jacobite Syrian Christian Church are Oriental Orthodoxy in India.

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Jerome

Jerome (Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was an early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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Kadavil Chandy

Kadavil Chandy Kathanar, also known as Alexander the Indian (Alaksandros hendwāyā) was a Kathanar (priest) and a celebrated scholar, orator, hymnographer and syriacist from the Saint Thomas Christian community in India.

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Kingdom of Cochin

The Kingdom of Cochin, also known as the Kingdom of Kochi or later as Cochin State, named after its capital in the city of Kochi (Cochin), was an Indian Hindu kingdom in the central part of present-day Kerala state. Coonan Cross Oath and kingdom of Cochin are history of Kerala.

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Kochi

Kochi, also known by its former name Cochin, is a major port city along the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea.

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Latin Church

The Latin Church (Ecclesia Latina) is the largest autonomous (sui iuris) particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics.

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Liturgical Latinisation

Liturgical Latinisation is the process of adoption of Latin liturgical rites by non-Latin Christian denominations, particularly within Eastern Catholic liturgy.

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Liturgy

Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group.

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Malabar Coast

The Malabar Coast is the southwestern region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Malabar Independent Syrian Church

The Malabar Independent Syrian Church (MISC) also known as the Thozhiyur Church, is a Christian church centred in Kerala, India. Coonan Cross Oath and Malabar Independent Syrian Church are Oriental Orthodoxy in India.

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Malankara Church

The Malankara Church, also known as Puthenkur, is the historic unified body of West Syriac Saint Thomas Christian denominations which claim ultimate origins from the missions of Thomas the Apostle.

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Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church

The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC) also known as the Indian Orthodox Church (IOC) or simply as the Malankara Church, is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church headquartered in Devalokam, near Kottayam, India. Coonan Cross Oath and Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church are Oriental Orthodoxy in India.

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Malankara–Persian ecclesiastical relations

Several historical evidences shed light on a significant Malankara–Persian ecclesiastical relationship that spanned centuries.

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Malayalam calendar

The Malayalam Calendar is a sidereal solar calendar used in Kerala.

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Mar Hormizd Syro-Malabar Cathedral, Angamaly

Mar Hormizd Cathedral, locally known as the Eastern Church of Angamaly (Angamali Kiḻakkeppaḷḷi) or the Cathedral Church (Aramanappaḷḷi), is a Syro-Malabar church in Angamaly, India.

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Mar Thoma Syrian Church

The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, often shortened to Mar Thoma Church, and known also as the Reformed Syrian ChurchS.

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Mattancherry

Mattancherry (Cochin Portuguese Creole: Cochim de Cima), is a historic ward of Kochi, Kerala.

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Miaphysitism

Miaphysitism is the Christological doctrine that holds Jesus, the "Incarnate Word, is fully divine and fully human, in one 'nature' (physis)." It is a position held by the Oriental Orthodox Churches and differs from the Chalcedonian position that Jesus is one "person" (ὑπόστασις) in two "natures" (φύσεις), a divine nature and a human nature (dyophysitism).

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Nestorianism

Nestorianism is a term used in Christian theology and Church history to refer to several mutually related but doctrinarily distinct sets of teachings.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Oriental Orthodox Churches

The Oriental Orthodox Churches are Eastern Christian churches adhering to Miaphysite Christology, with approximately 50 million members worldwide.

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Our Lady of Life Church, Mattancherry

Our Lady of Life Church (Igreja da Nossa Senhora da Vida is a Roman Catholic Church in Ernakulam district, Mattancherry, Kerala, India. It was built in the 9th-century and practices under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cochin. Coonan Cross Oath and Our Lady of Life Church, Mattancherry are Mattancherry.

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Padroado

The Padroado ("patronage") was an arrangement between the Holy See and the Kingdom of Portugal and later the Portuguese Republic, through a series of concordats by which the Holy See delegated the administration of the local churches and granted some theocratic privileges to Portuguese monarchs. Coonan Cross Oath and Padroado are Catholic Church in India.

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Palliveettil Chandy

Parambil Chandy (Alexandre de Campo in Portuguese; 1615 – 2 January 1687) was a bishop of the Catholic Saint Thomas Christians.

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Patriarch of Antioch

The Patriarch of Antioch is a traditional title held by the bishop of Antioch (modern-day Antakya, Turkey).

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Patriarchate of the East Indies

The Titular Patriarch of the East Indies (Patriarcha Indiarum Orientalium; Patriarchatus Indiarum Orientalium for Titular Patriarchate of the East Indies) in the Catholic hierarchy is the title of the Archbishop of Goa and Daman in India; another of his titles is the Primate of the East.

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Pope Alexander VII

Pope Alexander VII (Alessandro VII; 13 February 159922 May 1667), born Fabio Chigi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 April 1655 to his death, in May 1667.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Portuguese India

The State of India (Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Estado Português da India, EPI) or simply Portuguese India (Índia Portuguesa), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama, a subject of the Kingdom of Portugal. Coonan Cross Oath and Portuguese India are history of Kerala.

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Punnathra Dionysius III

Mar Dionysius III, also known as Punnathra Mar Dionysius and born Kurien (1785 – 19 May 1825) was 11th Malankara Metropolitan and Successor to the Holy Apostolic Throne of St.Thomas from 1817 until his death. Coonan Cross Oath and Punnathra Dionysius III are Oriental Orthodoxy in India.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa and Daman

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Goa and Daman (Archidioecesis Goanae et Damanensis, Gõy ani Damanv Mha-Dhormprant, Arquidiocese de Goa e Damão) encompasses the Goa state and the Damaon territory in the Konkan region, by the west coast of India.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Cochin

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cochin (Dioecesis Coccinensis) is a Roman Catholic Diocese of the Latin Rite in Cochin, Kerala, India.

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Saint Thomas Anglicans

Saint Thomas Anglicans (often called Anglican Syrian Christians or CSI Syrian Christians) are the Saint Thomas Christian members of the Church of South India (CSI); the self-governing South Indian province of the Anglican Communion.

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Saint Thomas Christians

The Saint Thomas Christians, also called Syrian Christians of India, Marthoma Suriyani Nasrani, Malankara Nasrani, or Nasrani Mappila, are an ethno-religious community of Indian Christians in the state of Kerala (Malabar region), who, for the most part, employ the Eastern and Western liturgical rites of Syriac Christianity.

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St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India

St.

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Stephen Neill

Stephen Charles Neill (1900–1984Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, p. 488.) was a British Anglican bishop, missionary and scholar.

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Synod

A synod is a council of a Christian denomination, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application.

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Synod of Diamper

The Synod of Diamper (Udayamperoor Synod) (Udayampērūṟ Sūnahadōs.), held at Udayamperoor (known as Diamper in non-vernacular sources) in June 1599, was a diocesan synod, or council, that created rules and regulations for the ancient Saint Thomas Christians (also known as Mar Thoma Nasranis) of the Malabar Coast, a part of modern-day Kerala state, India, formally subjugating them and downgrading their whole Metropolitanate of India as the Diocese of Angamale, a suffragan see to the Archdiocese of Goa administered by Latin Church Padroado missionaries. Coonan Cross Oath and synod of Diamper are Catholic Church in India, church of the East in India, history of Kerala and Oriental Orthodoxy in India.

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Syriac language

The Syriac language (Leššānā Suryāyā), also known natively in its spoken form in early Syriac literature as Edessan (Urhāyā), the Mesopotamian language (Nahrāyā) and Aramaic (Aramāyā), is an Eastern Middle Aramaic dialect. Classical Syriac is the academic term used to refer to the dialect's literary usage and standardization, distinguishing it from other Aramaic dialects also known as 'Syriac' or 'Syrian'.

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Syriac Orthodox Church

The Syriac Orthodox Church (ʿIdto Sūryoyto Trīṣath Shubḥo); also known as West Syriac Church or West Syrian Church, officially known as the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, and informally as the Jacobite Church, is an Oriental Orthodox church that branched from the Church of Antioch.

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Syro-Malabar Church

The Syro-Malabar Church, also known as the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic Church based in Kerala, India. Coonan Cross Oath and Syro-Malabar Church are church of the East in India.

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Syro-Malankara Catholic Church

The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, also known as the Malankara Syrian Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church in full communion with the worldwide Catholic Church possessing self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

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Thoma I

Mar Thoma I, also known as Valiya Mar Thoma (Mar Thoma the Great) and Arkkadiyakkon Thoma (Archdeacon Thomas) in Malayalam and Thomas de Campo in Portuguese was the first native-born, popularly-selected Metropolitan bishop of the 17th-century Malankara Church. Coonan Cross Oath and Thoma I are Oriental Orthodoxy in India.

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Vincent de Paul

Vincent de Paul, CM (24 April 1581 – 27 September 1660), commonly known as Saint Vincent de Paul, was an Occitan French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor.

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West Syriac Rite

The West Syriac Rite, also called the Syro-Antiochian Rite and the West Syrian Rite, is an Eastern Christian liturgical rite that employs the Divine Liturgy of Saint James in the West Syriac dialect.

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See also

1653 in Christianity

1653 in India

  • Coonan Cross Oath

17th century in Portuguese India

17th-century Eastern Catholicism

Catholic Church in India

Church of the East in India

Mattancherry

Oriental Orthodoxy in India

Political uprisings in India

Portuguese in Kerala

Religious oaths

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coonan_Cross_Oath

Also known as Coonan Cross, Coonen Cross Oath, Holy Cross chapel, Mattancherry, Koonen Cross Oath, Second coonan cross oath.

, Patriarch of Antioch, Patriarchate of the East Indies, Pope Alexander VII, Portugal, Portuguese India, Punnathra Dionysius III, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa and Daman, Roman Catholic Diocese of Cochin, Saint Thomas Anglicans, Saint Thomas Christians, St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India, Stephen Neill, Synod, Synod of Diamper, Syriac language, Syriac Orthodox Church, Syro-Malabar Church, Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, Thoma I, Vincent de Paul, West Syriac Rite.