Place · Syrian Christian town · India
Angamaly
Also known as Angamaly
The historic city of Angamaly in Ernakulam district, Kerala, 32 kilometres from Kochi — the medieval Syrian Christian capital of Kerala and the seat of the Syro-Malabar Church's archbishop before the 1663 Dutch conquest of Cochin shifted the see to Changanacherry. The 1-century St George Forane Church (Thomas Christian tradition) and the 1580 Angamaly Synod's intervention in the 1599 Synod of Udayamperoor (which Latinised the Syrian Christian liturgy) make it the central node of Kerala's Thomas Christian ecclesiastical history. The modern Angamaly is a major industrial and commercial centre on the National Highway 544, with the 1976 Angamaly archdiocese re-establishment restoring its ecclesiastical importance.
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Patron dynasty
- Travancore · Indian Union
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 10.195, 76.386
Connections (1)
- Site adjacencyUdayamperoor
Angamaly and Udayamperoor (Diamper) sit 15 kilometres apart in Ernakulam district, Kerala. Angamaly was the medieval Syrian Christian capital of Kerala before the 1599 Synod of Diamper (held at Udayamperoor) Latinised the Syrian Christian liturgy under Portuguese Archbishop Alexio de Menezes. The Angamaly-Udayamperoor pair documents the pre-synod Thomas Christian ecclesiastical hub and the subsequent Portuguese-imposed Latin subordination that produced the 1653 Coonan Cross Oath split.
Sources
Standard reference; district gazetteer and Wikipedia.
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