Archdiocese of Cranganore


The Archdiocese of Cranganore or Cranganor and Angamaly was a latinised [East East Syriac Rite|Syriac Rite|Syriac] Padroado Archdiocese in Kodungallur, Kerala, India. This diocese is a product of so-called Synod of Diamper held in Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Angamaly and All India. Its headquarters was first at St. Thomas church, Cranganore Fort until 1662 and then at Puthenchira church for more than a century. Mar Paremmakkal Thoma Kathanar, Administrator of the diocese moved its headquarters to Vadayar due to invasion of Tipu Sultan. Mar Poulose Pandari, a Chaldean Bishop belongs to Puthenchira parish of this diocese.

Bishops and hierarchs after the Synod of Diamper

Diocese of Angamalé

Taken into Roman Catholicism and degraded into a diocese by Roman Catholic Padroado Colonial power and Jesuit missionaries: 20 Dec 1599 through the Synod of Diamper
Syriac language name:Angamali
Latin Name: Angamalensis

Malayalam Name: Angamaly

Archdiocese of Cranganore

Name Changed: 1600
Malayalam name: Kodungalloor
Latin Name: Cranganorensis
''1838: Suppressed to the Vicariate Apostolic of Verapoly''