Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares

António Francisco Xavier Alvares (born April 29, 1836 in Verna , Goa , India , † September 23, 1923 in Goa), called Mar Julius I , was Archbishop - Metropolitan of the (Latin) Archdiocese of Ceylon , Goa and India within the Syriac Orthodox Church .

Life

The son of Joseph Baptista Alvares and the Marino Expectao Lorenco was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1862 or 1864 by Bishop Walter Steins SJ , Apostolic Vicar in Bombay . Alvares began his ministry in the Archdiocese of Goa in British India . As under Popes Pius IX. and Leo XIII. the hierarchy there was reorganized, Alvares turned against the dissolution of the historical connection with Portugal ( Padroado ) and joined in 1887 with a group of supporters while maintaining the Latin liturgy of the Syrian Orthodox Church in India.

On July 28, 1889 he was with the permission of the Patriarch Ignatius XXXIV. Peter III (IV. ) Consecrated there by Bishop Paulus Mar Athanasius of Kottayam as bishop for the independent Latin Orthodox Church of Ceylon, Goa and India (outside Malabar ). He carried the official name Mar Julius and resided first in Colombo , Sri Lanka, then in Kalynapur and finally in Ribandar , Goa, India, where he is buried. He is venerated as a saint.

In 1892 Alvares, together with Mar Athanasius Paulos († 1907) from Kottayam and Mar Gregorius Gewargis († 1902) from Niraman Joseph René Vilatte, was ordained a bishop, to whose apostolic succession many of today's Old Catholic bishops outside the Union of Utrecht refer to.

Web links

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• George A. Kiraz: The Credentials of Mar Julius Alvares, Bishop of Ceylon, Goa and India, Excluding Malabar . In: Hugoye. Journal of Syriac Studies . tape 7 , no. July 2 , 2004 (English, bethmardutho.org ).
• Metropolitan Alvares Julius Research Project