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Feb 19, 2016 · The Cistercian monk Francis Mahieu from Belgium and Bede Griffiths, a Benedictine from England, founded it in 1958 under the auspices of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.
Dec 8, 2002 · KOCHI, India—More than 100,000 Catholics, including nearly 100 bishops and 1,500 priests, marked the 1,950 years of Christianity in India since the arrival of St. Thomas the Apostle.
Following the discovery of a sea route to India by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in the 15th century AD, Western Christianity was established in the European colonies of Goa, Tranquebar, Bombay, Madras and Pondicherry; in the form of Catholicism (particularly of Latin Rite) and Protestantism. [14]
Jun 16, 2023 · Catholic Church in Northeast India. The existence of the Catholic community goes back to the 16th century (1577-85) with the settlement of a group of Portuguese soldiers in Udaipur, Tripura. Two Portuguese Jesuits Stephen Cacella and John Cabral visited Guwahati in 1626 on their way to Bhutan.
May 14, 2024 · St. Francis Xavier, who co-founded the society of Jesus with Ignatius Loyola and others, was based in Goa in the years 1541-1549, preaching and converting many locals to Christianity.
The history of the Church of the East in India is dated to 52 AD by apocryphal sources and to the 9th century by the Quilon Syrian copper plates, the latter of which is considered the earliest reputable dating for Christians in the Indian subcontinent.
On 12 September 1744, Benedict XIV forbade the so-called Malabar rites in India, with the result that leading Indian castes, who wanted to adhere to their traditional cultures, turned away from the Catholic Church.
