Diocese of São Tomé by Meliapore
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Thomas of Mylapore ( lat. : Dioecesis Sancti Thomae de Meliapor ) was from 1606 to 1952 one in India situated Roman Catholic diocese . The seat was Mylapore , a colony of Portugal from the 16th to the 18th century and today a district of Chennai (Madras), the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu .
history
The diocese of São Tomé of Meliapore was established on January 9, 1606 by Pope Paul V from cessions of territory of the diocese of Cochin . On January 21, 1612, the diocese of São Tomé of Meliapore gave up parts of its territory to establish the Apostolic Administration of Mozambique . Further territories were ceded in 1642 to found the Apostolic Vicariate Fort Saint George and in 1741 to found the Apostolic Vicariate Ava and Pegù . On April 18, 1834, the diocese of São Tomé of Meliapore gave up parts of its territory to establish the Apostolic Vicariate of Bengal . Another cession took place in 1836 to found the Mission sui juris Madurai .
On April 24, 1838, the diocese of São Tomé of Meliapore by Pope Gregory XVI. dissolved with the Papal Bull Multa praeclare and the territory was annexed to the Apostolic Vicariate of Madras. The diocese of São Tomé of Meliapore was on September 1, 1886 by Pope Leo XIII. rebuilt with the papal bull Humanae salutis . On November 13, 1952, the diocese of São Tomé was dissolved again by Meliapore and united with the Archdiocese of Madras, which had emerged from the Apostolic Vicariate Fort Saint George, to form the Archdiocese of Madras-Mylapore .
The diocese of São Tomé of Meliapore was subordinate to the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman as a suffragan .
Bishops of Sao Tome from Meliapore
- Gaspar Alphonsus Álvares SJ , 1691–1708
- Franciscus Laynez SJ, 1708-1715
- Emmanuel Sanches Goulão , 1718–…
- José Pinheiro SJ, 1725-1744
- Bernardo de São Caetano OSA , 1759-1780
- Joaquim de Meneses e Ataide OSA, 1804–1820, then Bishop of Elvas
- Henrique José Reed da Silva , 1887–1897
- António José de Souza Barroso , 1897–1899, then Bishop of Porto
- Teotonio Emanuele Ribeira Vieira de Castro , 1899–1929, then Archbishop of Goa and Daman
- António Maria Teixeira , 1929–1933
- Carlos de Sá Fragoso , 1933-1937
- Manuel de Medeiros Guerreiro , 1937–1951, then Bishop of Nampula