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Former Roman Catholic diocese in Tamil Nadu, India (1606-1952)
Meliapore
, 18th century print.The Diocese of Saint Thomas of Mylapore , presently in Chennai , Tamil Nadu (or in Portuguese São Tomé de Meliapor , in Latin Sancti Thomae de Meliapor ), was a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in India . It was a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Goa , under the Portuguese patronage . It was founded at 1606 and abandoned at 1952.
It was located in
peacocks
), which the Greeks rendered as
Maliarpha , the Portuguese as
Meliapor , and the English as
Mylapore .
Episcopal ordinaries Santhome Church, as built by the Portuguese in 1523 See also References External links
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East Asia and Oceania
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1 invasion by Indonesia . In 2002, East Timor's independence was fully recognized.
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