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 DiamperSyriac language name:Angamali
Latin Name: Angamalensis
Malayalam Name: Angamaly
Archdiocese of Cranganore
Name Changed: 1600Malayalam name: Kodungalloor
Latin Name: Cranganorensis
- Francis Ros S.J.
- Etienne de Brito, S.J.
- Francisco Garcia Mendes, S.J.
- Mar Alexander Parambil - Auxiliary Bishop of Cranganore and Vicar Apostolic of Malabar
- Jerome de São Tiago, O.S.B.
- Didacus Álvares
- João Ribeiro (archbishop), S.J.
- Antonio Pimentel (archbishop), S.J.
- João Luis Vasconcellos, S.J.
- Salvator dos Reis, S.J.
- Kariattil Mar Iousep
- *Paremmakkal Thomas
- Teodoro Botelho Homen Bernardes
- Paulo a Santo Tomas de Aquino, O.P.
- José Joaquim de Oliveira Carvalho, O.F.M. Obs.