Aleixo de Menezes position held Archbishop of Goa
The only case in which an ancient Eastern rite has been wilfully romanized is that of the Malabar Christians, where it was not Roman authority but the misguided zeal of Alexius de Menezes, Archbishop of Goa, and his Portuguese advisers at the Synod of Diamper (1599) which spoiled the old Malabar Rite.
Nasranis gathered at Mattancherry church on Friday, 3 January 1653 (M.E. 828 Makaram 3), and made an oath that is known as the Great Oath of Bent Cross
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