High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Verapoly (Verapolitana) is located on the Malabar Coast. It became a metropolitan see in 1886. Verapoly is now officially named Varapuzha. The Archdiocese of Verapoly was originally known as the Vicariate of Malabar. It has its origin in 1657, with the arrival of Carmelite Missionaries, most prominent among whom was Father Joseph of St. Mary, better known as Joseph Sebastiani. They had been deputed under Father Hyacinth as Apostolic Commissar, by Pope Alexander VII to effect a reconciliation of St. Thomas Christians of the Syro-Chaldaic Rite, who had seceded from their Archbishop Francis Garcia S.J. The majority of them had in 1653 revolted against the Archbishop and forsaking his authority by taking an oath for the purpose at the foot of a cross-thereafter called the “Coonen Cross” situated in Mattancherry, had illegally made their Archdeacon the Archbishop by going through a farcical ceremony.

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