1652 Ahatallah, or Ignatius, taken by the Portuguese, and burnt at Goa, according to Paulin. The tradition of the Christians
is that he was the Patriarch of Antioch, that he was drowned by the Rajah of Cochin off the Fort at the instigation of
to 1654
the Portuguese, and that the King died the same day by a blow on the head, getting into his Palanqueen.
1653 The Christians, enraged at this event, met at Alangatta, where twelve Priests install Parambil Toma, or Thomas de
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Campo, to exercise Episcopal Government over them. (The Romanists say he was consecrated, the Christians say
not, but confess that they gave him and his successors the title of Mar.) All the diocese, except about 400, fell into this
T. Sun.
Schism-Paulin says 200,000 souls. Those 400 report the circumstance to two bare-footed Carmelites of Goa, whom
they had known twenty years before, and they send the letters to Pope Alexander VII. who
1656 Sends out five Carmelite Missionaries from the Propaganda-two of whom, Josephus à Maria and Vincentius à Catharina,
gradually bring back forty of the lapsed Churches. Two others, Matthæus à S. Josepho, and Marcellus, are left in
Malabar, and Joseph and Vincentius return to Rome. In the mean time Hyacinthus à S. Vincentio arrives in Malabar
by way of Lisbon and Goa, and labours in the reduction of the Churches. Josephus à Maria, appointed Bishop of
Hierapolis and Vicar Apostolic, returns from Rome, and arrives in Malabar.
Cochin is taken by the Dutch, and Joseph, being obliged to leave Malabar, consecrates Alexander de Campo, a Native, re(C.) lated to Thomas de Campo, to govern the Church; for Francis Garzia, Archbishop of Angamale, was dead. 1674 On the death of Thomas de Campo, the Christians place the Mitre on the head of his brother, a layman; eight days after (D.) he was killed by lightning, when they elected his nephew; he, dying, appoints his nephew.
our bare-footed Carmelites to choose a proper Assistant to Alexander de Campo, Bishop of
D. Raphael de Figueredo Salgado with the title of Bishop of Adrumentum. Alexander de Campo refuses to con-
Bishop of Fulcivila.
rate him, having (with the protection of Henry Van Rheade, Governor of Cochin,) chosen Matthew de Campo, his
This consecration confirmed by the Pope, 1681.
Nephew, to be his Assistant Bishop. He is consecrated, therefore, at Calicut the same year by Thamas de Castro,
to appease them.
Infinite quarrels between the Carmelites
and Raphael—and Custodius de Pinho, Bishop of Hierapolis, Vicar Apostolic at the court of the Great Mogul, chosen
1676 Andreas, calling himself Patriarch, arrives in Malabar, with a forged brief from the Pope.
The Carmelite Missionaries at Aleppi detect him to be a Jacobite Priest. He was given to wine, and therefore not accept-
his death, which custom lasted till 1782.
able to Thomas de Campo's party. He lived some time at Callarcate, thence went to Callada, where he fell drunk
into the river and was drowned. The Schismatics of the South offer cocks and hens at his tomb on the anniversary of
1685 Mar Johannes comes from Mosul, with the title of Maphrian, with a Patent from the Patriarch of Antioch. Mar
Basilius, with him, had only the title of Bishop. They were attended by two Armenian Clergymen, and
one Greek. Johannes was a true Jacobite Bishop; he went to the South of Malabar to Palaya and taught his
errors by letters written in Arabic with Syriac characters. Hanna and Thomas de Campo oppose him, and
he goes to the North, where he dies at Molanturuti. Basilius dies at Codamangala, where they keep the day of
1708 D. Gabriel came to the Quilon Coast in an English Ship from Madras, calling himself Archbishop of Jerusalem.
He caused infinite disturbances. (De eo diarium M. S. D. Angeli Francisci Episcopi Methelopolitani plurimæ Epistolæ
P. Innocentü á S. Onuphio, P. Arsenü, D. Episcopi Limirensis, quæ in Scriniis Verapolitanis asservantur.) He lived
and died a Nestorian, the implacable enemy of Thomas de Campo, and cajoling the Catholics. From these documents
Le Quien and Asseman must be corrected.
1717 Thomas V. on his death had put the Mitre on the head of his lay nephew, and the Staff and Ring on his hand.-Gabriel
had ordained many, and, among the rest, George, the Senior Priest of Tekenpallipuram and the Muppen or Senior Priest
of Callurcate, both of whom Paulin, knew. Thomas VI. wished to be consecrated by Gabriel; but, while he was
hastening for that purpose to Cottata, Gabriel expired.
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