Mar Hormiz Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Angamaly

St. Hormiz Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Angamaly
St. Hormiz Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Angamaly
10°11′26″N 76°22′58″E / 10.1906°N 76.3828°E / 10.1906; 76.3828Coordinates: 10°11′26″N 76°22′58″E / 10.1906°N 76.3828°E / 10.1906; 76.3828
Location Angamaly, Kerala
Country India
Denomination Syro-Malabar Catholic Church[1]
Website http://www.angamalybasilica.com
History
Former name(s) Mar Hormizd Metropolitan Cathedral
Founded 1577[2]
Founder(s) Mar Abraham, Metropolitan and the Gate of All India
Dedication Hormizd Rabban
Dedicated 1583[2]
Consecrated 1583[2]
Cult(s) present former cathedral of Saint Thomas Christians
Relics held Mar Abraham
Past bishop(s) Mar Abraham
Associated people Saint Thomas Christians
Architecture
Status Filial[3]
Administration
Archdiocese Syro-Malabar Catholic Major Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly
Clergy
Archbishop Mar George Alencherry

Mar Hormizd Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Angamaly is a church located in Angamaly, Kerala, India. It was established in 1570 by Mar Abraham, the last Chaldean Metropolitan to reach Malabar Coast.[4] It is dedicated to Mar Hormizd, a seventh century Chaldean saint.[5][6]

History

Mar Abraham who came to Malabar in 1570 settled in Angamaly as his See to govern the Saint Thomas Christians. Its jurisdiction was extended whole over India till the 16th century. The most ancient University for Malpan training was established at Angamaly before the arrival of the Portughese. The Chaldean bishop Mar Abraham was ordained as the Metropolitan and the Gate of All India and Rabban Hormiz Church was the Cathedral church.[7][8] This title denotes a Quasi Patriarchal status with all India jurisdiction.[9][10][11]

The church houses the tomb of Mar Abraham who died in 1597.[12][13]

Mar Hormizd Church, built by Mar Abraham

After having made a successful escape from the Portuguese detention in Goa, Mar Abraham returned to Angamaly in 1570. In the same year, Mar Abraham built his first Cathedral Church namely Rabban Hormizd, a seventh century Abbot of the East Syrian Church, as its patron.

Mar Hormizd Syro-Malabar Church Angamaly

In 1578, as a response to the requests made on the part of the Jesuit missionaries who had been working in Angamaly and in the other centres of the Christians of St. Thomas, the pope sent plenary indulgences to the Church of Rabban Hormizd which the faithful could obtain four times a year for 25 years from the year of the election of the Metropolitan Mar Abraham. The indulgences covered two feasts of the Patron Rabban Hormizd that fell on the fifteenth day after Easter (Monday) and on the first of September. On 15 August 1579, as requested by Mar Abraham, the Jesuits laid the foundation stone of a new Cathedral Rabban Hormizd in the same place that was chosen by the Metropolitan.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/parish.php?id=276
  2. 1 2 3 "Consecration of renovated Mar Hormiz Church, Angamaly". Deepika. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  3. ↑ http://www.ernakulamarchdiocese.org/churches.php?page=1
  4. ↑ Encyclopaedia of sects & religious doctrines, Volume 4 By Charles George Herbermann page 1180,1181
  5. ↑ Fr. Varghese Pathikulangara CMI (2011). Divine Praises in Aramaic Tradition (PDF). Kottayam: Denha Services. p. 48. ISBN 978-93-81207-02-4.
  6. ↑ http://angamalybasilica.com/template.php?id=35&page=8&catid=72
  7. ↑ Du Jarric, tom. I, lib. II, p. 614
  8. ↑ Du Jarric, "Rer. Ind. Thesaur.", tom. III, lib. II, p. 69
  9. ↑ Joseph Thekkedathu, pous cit pp96-100
  10. ↑ Rev Dr Placid Podipara, The Hierarchy of Syro Malabar Church, in Collected works of Rev Dr Placid Podipara CMI, Vol I p 719
  11. ↑ For full details cf. the many passages in the Thomapedia, 1973/2000, Ed.George Menachery
  12. ↑ Language of religion, language of the people: medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam,Ernst Bremer, Susanne Röhl Page 401
  13. ↑ http://www.nasrani.net/2007/07/31/book-reviewthe-nazranies-by-prof-george-menanchery/

See also

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