{"id":64402,"date":"2018-11-22T11:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T11:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=64402"},"modified":"2018-11-22T11:34:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T11:34:59","slug":"international-conference-on-independent-catholic-mission-of-goa-mangalore-india-ceylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=64402","title":{"rendered":"International Conference on Independent Catholic Mission of Goa, Mangalore, India &#038; Ceylon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSC_0350.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64403\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSC_0350-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSC_0350-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSC_0350-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSC_0350-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSC_0350.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The St. Sebastian Parish of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Colombo, the Madras Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, and the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft of Universita\u00a8t Bonn jointly organize an international workshop at Caritas-SEDEC, Colombo on 22-23 November 2018.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">His Grace Dr. Yuhanon Mar Diascorus, Metropolitan of Madras Diocese of Malankara Orthodox Church, inaugurated the 2 day International workshop: &#8216;A local and Global history of Buona Morte Church&#8217;. The workshop aims to delve into history of Independent Catholic Mission of Goa, Mangalore, India &amp; Ceylon in 19th century, assessing the history of Buona Monte Church, once the headquarters of this mission.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The conference is hosted by the St. Sebastian Parish of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Colombo, the Madras Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, and the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft of Universita\u0308t Bonn at Caritas-SEDEC, Colombo on 22-23 November 2018.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake, the commander of the Sri Lankan Army, a well wisher of Malankara Orthodox Church, inaugurated the conference.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Rev. Fr. Joy Mariaratnam CMF (Caritas Srilanka) welcomed the gathering.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Prof. Dr. Rev. Fr. M.O. John (Old Seminary, Kottayam) moderated the morning session on &#8216;Oriental Christianity in Ceylon: from the Persian Christians to the Malankara Syrian Orthodox&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The afternoon session on &#8216;The Religious context of nineteenth century Ceylon&#8217;, was moderated by Prof. Dr. Rev. Fr. JayalathBalagalla, O.P<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Paper Presentations :<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Mr. PraboMihindukulasuriya, Colombo : &#8216;The Persian Christians of the Anuradhapura Period\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Mr. Sujith George (Chennai) : &#8216;Was Independent Catholic Church a revival of Orthodox St. Thomas Christians in Ceylon?&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Prof. Dr. Rev. Fr. GnanamuthuPilendran (Jaffna) : &#8216;The establishment of the BuonaMorte Church and the spread of Schism to Mannar and Jaffna, &#8211; A study from a Roman Catholic Perspective&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Dr. M. Kurian Thomas (Kottayam) : &#8216;Eastern Christianity in Sri Lanka and the Conflicts on Liturgical Rites&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Prof. Dr. G.P.V.Somaratna (Colombo) : &#8216;Christian background in Revival of Nationalistic Buddhism in 19th Century Srilanka&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Rev. Fr. Marc Billimoria (Dehiwela) : &#8216;Developments in 19th Century Anglicanism in Ceylon&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Rev. Fr. Prof. Rajesh Rosario (Mangalore) : &#8216;Behind the Goan schism: A re-examination on the padroado question in India and Ceylon in the nineteenth century&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Dr.Wei Jiang (Bonn) : &#8216;Luke of Hulsdorf: Dr. Pedro Manuel Lisboa Pinto and the &#8220;Moorish&#8221;community in nineteenth century Colombo&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">On 23rd November, 2018 the conference will continue at Buona Monte Church after the Holy Mass.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">News by Fr. Noel Lewis &amp; Fr. Abraham Kuriakose. Pics by Fr. Aswin Fernandes<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Sebastian Parish of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Colombo, the Madras Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, and the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft of Universita\u00a8t Bonn jointly organize &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alvares-mar-julius","category-world-church-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64404,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64402\/revisions\/64404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}