Brahmavar (Goan) Orthodox Church
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Brahmavar Orthodox Church is a part of the
Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Church. This is a uniate faction from the Catholic Church formed under the leadership of Bishop Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares
in 1889 AD.
The territory of Goa in south India was a colony of Portugal. Fr. Antonio who was a Roman Catholic priest at the time, opposed the ‘Concordot’ of the Pope and interference of the Government in the Church Administration. His pro-Independence periodicals which were also critical of the Roman Catholic Church were banned. He was excommunicated, stripped naked and paraded through the streets. He left the Church with around hundreds of goan catholic families and joined the Malankara Orthodox Church, and the Brahmavar community has come into existence since then as a part of the Indian Orthodox Church .
Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares was ordained as the first Orthodox Metropolitan of Goa-Ceylon in 1889 AD by Paulose Mar Athanasious and Gheevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala
at Orthodox Pazhaya Seminary
.
Presently there are about 700 families in Goa
in this diocese of Indian Orthodox Church.
Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Church. This is a uniate faction from the Catholic Church formed under the leadership of Bishop Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares
Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares
Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares was initially a priest in Roman Catholic Church in Goa...
in 1889 AD.
The territory of Goa in south India was a colony of Portugal. Fr. Antonio who was a Roman Catholic priest at the time, opposed the ‘Concordot’ of the Pope and interference of the Government in the Church Administration. His pro-Independence periodicals which were also critical of the Roman Catholic Church were banned. He was excommunicated, stripped naked and paraded through the streets. He left the Church with around hundreds of goan catholic families and joined the Malankara Orthodox Church, and the Brahmavar community has come into existence since then as a part of the Indian Orthodox Church .
Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares was ordained as the first Orthodox Metropolitan of Goa-Ceylon in 1889 AD by Paulose Mar Athanasious and Gheevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala
at Orthodox Pazhaya Seminary
Orthodox Pazhaya Seminary
The Orthodox Pazhaya Seminary is a seminary of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. It was founded in 1815 by the priest-monk Ittoop Ramban to serve the then-unified Malankara Syrian Church. It was the first Syriac Orthodox school of theology in Asia....
.
Presently there are about 700 families in Goa
Goa
Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...
in this diocese of Indian Orthodox Church.