Palliveettil Chandy

Mar; Chandy Palliveeettil
	Metropolitan and Gate of All India.
Diocese	Archdiocese of Cranganore
See	Kodungallur (Muziris) of the Marthoma Nazrenes.
Installed	31 January 1663
Term ended	2 January 1687
Predecessor	Abraham of Angamaly
Successor	Kariattil Ousep
Orders
Ordination	31 January 1663
Personal details
Born	Chandy; 1615; Muttuchira
Died	2 January 1687 (aged 71–72); Kuravilangad
Buried	St. Mary's Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church Kuravilangad

Palliveettil Chandy (Alexandre de Campo in Portuguese; 1615 – 2 January 1687) was an Indian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Cranganore from 1663 to 1687.^[1] He was the first known native Indian bishop.^[2]

As archbishop, Chandy headed the East Syriac faction known as the Paḻayakūṟ, or "Old Allegiance", after the Coonan Cross Oath in 1653 brought secession from the Portuguese Padroado. The faction soon returned to full communion with the Holy See as Eastern Catholics and would later become known as the Syro-Malabar Church. Chandy, whose efforts to reconcile the other dissident Indian factions ultimately failed, died in 1687 and his tomb is at the Marth Mariam Church in Kuravilangad.

References

Back to citation "Syro Malabar Church Chronology". Archived from the original on 4 October 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
Back to citation Menon, A. Sreedhara (1965). Kerala District Gazetteers: Ernakulam. Trivandrum: The Superintendent of Government Presses, Government Press. p. 186. “Alexander de Campo was the first Indian Bishop not only in Malabar but in whole of India.”
Back to citation Tisserant, Eugène (1957). Eastern Christianity in India: a history of the Syro-Malabar Church from the earliest time to the present day. Orient Longmans. OCLC 2383390.