Archdiocese of Cranganore

The Archdiocese of Cranganore or Cranganor and Angamaly was a latinised Syriac Padroado Archdiocese in Kodungallur, Kerala, India.^[1][2] This diocese is a product of so-called Synod of Diamper held in Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Angamaly and All India.^[3] 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.^[4][5]

Archdiocese of Cranganore
Bishopric
Puthenchira Saint Mary's Syro-Malabar Church, a longtime Cathedral of the erstwhile Archdiocese of Cranganore
Location
Country	India
Ecclesiastical province	Cranganore
Headquarters	Angamaly, Cranganore
Information
First holder	Francisco Roz
Denomination	Syro-Malabar
Sui iuris church	Padroado Roman Catholic
Rite	Latinised East Syriac Rite
Established	1599
Dissolved	1838
Suffragans	nil

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

Name Changed: 1600 Malayalam name: Kodungalloor
Latin Name: Cranganorensis

• Francis Ros S.J. (Francisco Rodríguez) (15 Dec 1599 - 18 Feb 1624 Died)
• Etienne de Brito, S.J. (18 Feb 1624 - 2 Dec 1641 Died)
• Francisco Garcia Mendes, S.J. (2 Dec 1641 - 3 Sep 1659 Died)
• Mar Alexander Parambil - Auxiliary Bishop of Cranganore (Angamala) and Vicar Apostolic of Malabar (1 Feb 1663 - 16 July 1685)^[6]
• Jerome de São Tiago, O.S.B. (8 Jan 1689 - ? Resigned before consecration)
• Didacus Álvares (19 Apr 1694 - 30 Dec 1697 Resigned)
• João Ribeiro (archbishop), S.J. (5 Dec 1701 - 24 Jan 1716 Died)
• Antonio Pimentel (archbishop), S.J. (20 Jan 1721 - 6 Mar 1752 Died)
• João Luis Vasconcellos, S.J. (6 Mar 1752 - 11 Oct 1754 Died)
• Salvator dos Reis, S.J. (19 Jul 1756 - 7 Apr 1777 Died)
• Kariattil Mar Iousep (16 Dec 1782 - 9 Sep 1786 Died)
  • Paremmakkal Thomas (Administrator) (1786 - 1799)
• Teodoro Botelho Homen Bernardes (26 Aug 1806 Confirmed - )
• Paulo a Santo Tomas de Aquino, O.P. (17 Dec 1819 - 19 Dec 1823 Died)
• José Joaquim de Oliveira Carvalho (da Imaculada Conceição Amarante), O.F.M. Obs. (19 Dec 1825- 1835 Died)

1838: Suppressed to the Vicariate Apostolic of Verapoly