Apostolic Church of St. Thomas Christians

The Apostolic Church of St. Thomas Christians in India has usually remained in Catholic Communion till 16 century. But, underneath the impact of ‘padroado’ agreement, the Indian Church of St. Thomas got here into direct touch with the Latin Catholic Church through the Portuguese missionaries. The missionaries, who were basically blind to the Oriental Catholic traditions needed to latinize the St. Thomas Christians of India in a clandestine manner and that ended up within the insurrection of Koonan Kurisu Sathyam in 1653.

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