Parambil Chandy (Alexandre de Campo in Portuguese; 1615 – 2 January 1687) was an Indian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Cranganore from 1663 to 1687.[1] He was the first known native Indian bishop.[2]
As archbishop, Chandy headed the East Syriac faction known as the Paḻayakūṟ, or “Old Allegiance”, after the Coonan Cross Oath in 1653 brought secession from the Portuguese Padroado. The faction soon returned to full communion with the Holy See as Eastern Catholics and would later become known as the Syro-Malabar Church. Chandy, whose efforts to reconcile the other dissident Indian factions ultimately failed, died in 1687 and his tomb is at the Marth Mariam Church in Kuravilangad.
See also
- Kadavil Chandy Kathanar
- Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
- List of Syro-Malabar Catholics
- Timeline of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
- Christianity in India
- Saint Thomas Christians[3]
External links
- Mar Chandy Parambil
- St Thomas Christian Encyclopaedia of India – Edited by George Menachery (1998).
- History of Christianity in India – Mundadan, A. Mathias (1984).
References
- ^ “Syro Malabar Church Chronology”. Archived from the original on 4 October 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
- ^ Menon, A. Sreedhara (1965). Kerala District Gazetteers: Ernakulam. Trivandrum: The Superintendent of Government Presses, Government Press. p. 186.
Alexander de Campo was the first Indian Bishop not only in Malabar but in whole of India.
- ^ Tisserant, Eugène (1957). Eastern Christianity in India : a history of the Syro-Malabar Church from the earliest time to the present day. Orient Longmans. OCLC 2383390.