Archdiocese of Cranganore

The Archdiocese of Cranganore or Cranganor and Angamaly was a latinised Syriac Padroado Archdiocese in Kodungallur, Kerala, India.

[1][2] This diocese is a product of so-called Synod of Diamper held in Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Angamaly and All India.

Mar Paremmakkal Thoma Kathanar, Administrator of the diocese moved its headquarters to Vadayar due to invasion of Tipu Sultan.

Mar Poulose Pandari, a Chaldean Bishop belongs to Puthenchira parish of this diocese.

[4][5] Taken into Roman Catholicism and degraded into a diocese by Roman Catholic Padroado Colonial power and Jesuit missionaries: 20 Dec 1599 through the Synod of Diamper Syriac language name:AngamaliLatin Name: Angamalensis Malayalam Name: Angamaly Name Changed: 1600 Malayalam name: Kodungalloor Latin Name: Cranganorensis 1838: Suppressed to the Vicariate Apostolic of Verapoly