Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Thomas of Mylapore
The Diocese of Saint Thomas of Mylapore, presently in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, was a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in India. It was a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Goa, under the Portuguese patronage. It was founded at 1606 from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cochin and abandoned at 1952.
It was in Mylapore and derives its name from the site of its cathedral in which the Apostle St. Thomas was reportedly interred.
Episcopal ordinaries
- Sebastião de São Pedro, Augustinian Order, next bishop of Cochin
- Luís de Brito de Menezes, O.E.S.A., next Bishop of Cochin
- Luís Paulo de Estrela, Franciscan Third Order
- Gaspar Alphonsus Álvares, Jesuits
- Francisco Laynez, S.J.
- Manuel Sanches Golão
- José Pinheiro, S.J.
- António da Encarnação, O.E.S.A.
- Bernardo de São Caetano, O.E.S.A.
- Joaquim de Meneses e Ataíde, O.E.S.A., next bishop of Elvas
- Estevão de Jesus Maria da Costa, Friars Minor, next Bishop of Angra
- António Tristão Vaz Teixeira
- Henrique José Reed da Silva
- António José de Sousa Barroso, next bishop of Porto
- Teotónio Emanuel Ribeiro Vieira de Castro, next Archbishop of Goa e Damão
- António Maria Teixeira
- Carlos de Sá Fragoso
- Manuel de Medeiros Guerreiro, next Bishop of Nampula.
- ''Extinction – 1952''