Konkani Orthodox Church

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The Konkani Orthodox Church is a split faction from the Catholic Church in India, founded by Bishop Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares in 1889. The cathedral is situated at Brahmavar, in Udipi, Carnataca, India.^[1]

Earlier, as a presbyter, Anton Francis Alvares was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, stripped naked & paraded through the streets.^[2] He left the church with some hundreds of Catholic Christian families in what was Portuguese Goa; to join the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church in British India. Eventually, after Alvares died, this Brahmavar (Konkani) community had come into existence since then as a part of the Indian Orthodox Church. The church uses the Tridentine Mass, in Konkani, although, in recent years, part of the liturgy has been West Syrianised, with use of the West Syriac Rite 3 times out of 4 in a month when it comes to Sundays. ^[3]

Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares was ordained as the first Orthodox Metropolitan of Goa, Bombay, Ceylon and Greater India in 1889 AD. by Paulose Mar Athanasius and Geevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala at the Orthodox Theological Seminary, Kottayam in the state of Kerala (Malabar region).

Presently, they are under the Brahmavar diocese^[4] of Malankara (Indian) Orthodox Church.

References

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^ "Consecration of renovated St Mary's Orthodox Syrian Cathedral today". Archived from the original on 7 August 2024.
^ Stalvares Archived 4 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Holy Brahmavar". The Orthodox Church. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
^ http://www.moscdob.com/. Retrieved 4 November 2016. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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