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Kottakkavu Mar Thoma Syro-Malabar Church, North Paravur

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Kottakkavu Forane Church & Pilgrim Centre, North Paravur
Kottakkavu Forane Church & Pilgrim Centre, North Paravur
Location North Paravur
Country India
Denomination Syro-Malabar Church[1]
History
Former name(s) Kottakkavu Kandīshāppally (Sts. Sabor and Aproth Church) - until Synod of Diamper
Saints Gervasius and Protasius Church[2]
Founded 52[3]
Founder St. Thomas the Apostle[4]
Dedication St. Thomas
Architecture
Functional status Active
Administration
District Ernakulam
Diocese Syro-Malabar Catholic Major Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly[5]
Clergy
Archbishop Mar Raphael Thattil (വലിയ മെത്രാപ്പോലീത്താ)
Bishop Mar Bosco Puthoor(Apostolic Administrator)
Vicar Jose പുതിയേടത്ത്

Kottakkavu Mar Thoma Syro-Malabar Pilgrim Church is a Syro-Malabar church located in North Paravur. According to Saint Thomas Christian tradition, the church was established in 52 AD by St. Thomas (Mar Thoma shleeha), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ.[6][7] It is one of the first churches in India and is called an Apostolic Church credited to the Apostolate of St. Thomas who preached and also started the conversion of people to Syriac Christianity here. It is one of the Ezharappallikal (seven and Ara ( Ara In malayalam Royal) churches - Total 8 Churches) that he established in India; the other Seven churches were established at Kodungalloor, Kokkamangalam, Palayoor, Kollam, Niranam, Thiruvithamcode and Nilackal.[8][9]

History

Ramban Pattu

The Saint reached Kottakkayal

Where he taught the Holy Way

There within a span of a year

One thousand seven hundred

And another seventy of them

Were christened by baptism

Mar Sabor and Mar Proth

Mar Sabor and Mar Proth came from Persia to Malankara in the 9th century. They built and presided over a number of churches in Malankara operating in accordance with Saint Thomas Christians. The second church of Kottakkavu was rebuilt at this time. After their death they were remembered as saints and their name was given to this church. Kottakkavu Sliva, a Persian cross engraved on granite stone by Mar Sabor and Mar Proth, is preserved in the chapel in front of the church.

MS Vatican Syriac N. iv., dated A.D. 1556, and has the following colophon in folio 278:

"By the help of our Lord we have finished this book of the Prophets; it was written on a Monday, the 18th of February, in the year 1556 of the birth of our Lord. I, priest Jacob, the disciple of Mar Jacob, and from the village of Puraur, have written this book in the holy Church of Mar Shapur and Mar Iapot [Piruz]. May the holy name of God be praised for ever. Amen!"[10]

Old church

The existing old church, the third church, was built in 1308.[11] The ruined old church was again reconstructed in the 21st century.

References

  1. Back to citation Shyama Rajagopal (21 September 2013). "In Paravur, a slideshow of history". Thehindu.com. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  2. Back to citation Whitehouse, Thomas (1873). Lingerings of light in a dark land: researches into the Syrian church of Malabar (1873 ed.). William Brown & CO. p. 34.
  3. Back to citation Curtin, D. P; Nath, Nithul. (May 2017). The Ramban Pattu. ISBN 9781087913766.
  4. Back to citation "Kottakkavu church - place of religious importance, Ernakulam, Kerala, Muziris History". Keralatourism.org. 15 August 2002. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  5. Back to citation "Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly". Ernakulamarchdiocese.org. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  6. Back to citation "Syro Malabar Church Chronology". Syromalabarchurch.in. 1 January 1911. Archived from the original on 4 October 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  7. Back to citation Menon (1962), p. 72, 100, 611.
  8. Back to citation "History | Payyappilly Palakkappilly Nasrani". Payyappilly.org. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  9. Back to citation A Sreedhara Menon (2007). A Survey Of Kerala History. D C Books. p. 39. ISBN 8126415789.
  10. Back to citation Mingana, Alphonse (1926). "The Early Spread of Christianity in India" (PDF). Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. 10 (2): 502. doi:10.7227/BJRL.10.2.7.
  11. Back to citation Katz, Nathan; Goldberg, Ellen S. (1993). The Last Jews of Cochin: Jewish Identity in Hindu India. University of South Carolina Press. p. 54. ISBN 9780872498471.

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