Indian Christianity

HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN
TIME LINE
AD 1665
Mar Gregorios Abdul Jaleel, a Bishop send by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch arrived in India.
The Syrian Christians around Angamaly who did not accept Mar Gregorius Abdul Jaleel remained as a
separate group and waited for East Syrian bishops as before. Those who accepted the West Syrian
theological and liturgical tradition of Mar Gregorios became known as Jacobites.
AD 1670
Mor Thoma I and Mor Gregorious of Jerusalem both jointly consecrated Mar Thoma II.
AD 1688
Mor Thoma IV became head of the church and administered the Church for 40 years.
AD 1772
Mar Gregorios consecrated Abraham Mar Koorilose as bishop. Mar Koorilose eventually retired to
Thozhiyur where he led a life of prayer. This church continued as an independent church since then.
AD 1605 and 1825.
Merchants of the The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) formed
AD 1787
Representatives from 84 churches assembled in Angamaly and drew up a document called Angamaly
Padiyola which made a strong demand to Rome for native bishops
AD 1816
Col. Colin Macaulay resident representative of British in Travancore (1800-1810).
Arrival of the British Missionaries
AD 1806
The Malayalam Bible
Claudius Buchanan vice principal of Calcutta College and Anglican Church Bishop Benjamin Bialy
reached to Kerala during 1806. Mar Divanyous I translated the gospels into Malayalam which Buchanan
got printed in Bombay. In 1807 he translated four Gospels into Malayalam.
AD 1810
Col. John Munro resident representative of British in Travancore (1810-1819).
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