﻿ON THE COAST OF MALABAR. 3/3 



MEiyfEZEs appointed Roz a second time Archbishop 

 of the Sijrian Christians ; who, instead oi" Angama- 

 lee, took now his residence at Cranganorc ; and, 

 since that time, a great part of the *Sr. 7'home Chris- 

 tians remained united with the Romaji churcli, and 

 were governed by the successors of lloz, under the 

 title of Archbishop oi'Cranganore. 



This re-union ofthe«SV. 1 home Christians to the 

 see oi' Rome was, however, neither general nor sin- 

 cere and lasting : for, a short time after, some JlJa- 

 ronites, or JSlestorian priests, found their way to tlie 

 mountains of Travancore, whcve they revived the old 

 doctrines and rites, and ever since kept up their com- 

 munication with the Jacobites, Maronites, and Nes- 

 tor ians of Syria. At present there are thirty- two 

 churches of this description remaining, which are 

 called Schismatic Syrians by the Portuguese and Ro- 

 wan clergy. They have a Bishop, or Mar Thome', 

 uho resides at Narnatte, about ten miles in land fiom 

 Porca ; and was consecrated by some Jacobite \j\- 

 shops sent from Antiochia for that purpose in the 

 year I7.'5'i- He adheres more to the doctrine of Eu- 

 TiCHEsthan ofNESxoRius. 



About b4 of the old St. Thome churches remain 

 united to the Roman Catholic religion, and are go- 

 verned by the Arclibishop of Cranganore, or, as he 

 used to style himself, the Archbishop of the J/«/«Z'^r 



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tained on that occasion ; for this blind and enthusiastic inquisitor, oc- 

 troyed, iike a fecond Omar, ail the books written in the Sjr'wn or 

 Chaldctan language, which could be collected, not only at the Synod 

 oi Odlamper, but especially during his subsequent circuit j for as soon 

 as he had entered into a Sjr'iafi Church, he ordered all their books and 

 records to be laid before him ; which, a few indiff.rent ones ex- 

 cepted, he committed to the flames ; so that at present neither books 

 nor manuscripts are any more to be fpund amongst the St. Thome Chrli^^ 



