{ "book_metadata": { "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials", "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose", "publisher": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge", "published_on": "2011" }, "chunks": [ { "chunk_index": 1, "chapter_name": "1857. Concordat of 1857", "page_numbers": [ 162 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00186-5b9f49801d357c74aa1a.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Concordat Negotiations", "chunk_data": "106. CONCORDAT OF 1857\nIn an effort to end the jurisdictional dispute between the Padroadoists and Propagandists negotiations were entered into between the Pope and the King of Portugal that resulted in the signing of the Concordat of 1857. It was not finally ratified until 6th February 1860, when it was signed by the king. Cited in Ernest R. Hull, Bombay Mission-History with a Special Study of the Padroado Question vol. II, 1858-1890, pp. 9-12.", "time": { "start_year": 1857, "start_month": 2, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1860, "end_month": 2, "end_date": 6, "time_display": "1857; ratified 6 February 1860" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Pius IX", "King Pedro V of Portugal", "Ernest R. Hull" ], "places": [ "Portugal", "India" ], "event": "Negotiations between Pope Pius IX and King Pedro V of Portugal produced the Concordat of 1857, which was ratified in 1860.", "tags": [ "Church Politics", "Diplomacy", "Catholicism" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 2, "chapter_name": "1857. Concordat of 1857", "page_numbers": [ 162, 163 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00186-5b9f49801d357c74aa1a.webp", "raw\\pages\\00187-c862c8e574e4b992ba64.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Treaty Preamble", "chunk_data": "In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity\nHis Holiness the Supreme Pontiff Pius IX. and His Most Faithful Majesty King Don Pedro V., having resolved to make a Treaty, in which articles of agreement shall be established for continuing the exercise of the rights of the Patronage of the Portuguese Crown in India and China in terms stated in the said articles, have appointed for this purpose two plenipotentiaries, viz., on the part of His Holiness, the Most Eminent and the Most Reverend Cardinal Camillo de Pietro, Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Portugal; and on the part of His Most Faithful Majesty, the Most Excellent Rodrigo da Fonseca Magalhaes, Peer of the Realm, Privy Councillor, Minister and Honorary Secretary of State, and Grand Cross of the Order of Our Lord Jesus Christ; who, having exchanged their respective full powers, and having found them in good and due form, have assented to the following Articles :-", "time": { "start_year": 1857, "start_month": 2, "start_date": 21, "end_year": 1857, "end_month": 2, "end_date": 21, "time_display": "21 February 1857" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Pius IX", "King Pedro V of Portugal", "Camillo de Pietro", "Rodrigo da Fonseca Magalhaes" ], "places": [ "Portugal", "India", "China" ], "event": "Pope Pius IX and King Pedro V of Portugal appointed plenipotentiaries to establish the treaty governing Portuguese patronage in India and China.", "tags": [ "Diplomacy", "Church Politics", "Catholicism" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 3, "chapter_name": "1857. Concordat of 1857", "page_numbers": [ 163 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00187-c862c8e574e4b992ba64.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Portuguese Patronage Continued", "chunk_data": "ARTICLE I\nIn virtue of the respective Apostolic Bulls, and in conformity to the Sacred Canons, the exercise of the right of the Patronage of the Portuguese Crown shall continue, with regard to India and China, in the Cathedrals declared below.", "time": { "start_year": 1857, "start_month": 2, "start_date": 21, "end_year": 1857, "end_month": 2, "end_date": 21, "time_display": "21 February 1857" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Pius IX", "King Pedro V of Portugal" ], "places": [ "India", "China" ], "event": "The treaty continued the Portuguese Crown's patronage rights over specified cathedrals in India and China.", "tags": [ "Church Politics", "Catholicism", "Law" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 4, "chapter_name": "1857. Concordat of 1857", "page_numbers": [ 163 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00187-c862c8e574e4b992ba64.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Indian Patronage Sees", "chunk_data": "ARTICLE II\nWith regard to India: In the Metropolitan and Primatial Church of Goa; in the Archiepiscopal Church ad honorem of Cranganore; in the Episcopal Cochin; in the Episcopal Church of St. Thomas of Meliapor; and in the Episcopal Church of Malacca.", "time": { "start_year": 1857, "start_month": 2, "start_date": 21, "end_year": 1857, "end_month": 2, "end_date": 21, "time_display": "21 February 1857" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Pius IX", "King Pedro V of Portugal" ], "places": [ "Goa", "Cranganore", "Cochin", "Meliapor", "Malacca" ], "event": "The treaty identified the Indian metropolitan, archiepiscopal, and episcopal churches in which Portuguese patronage would continue.", "tags": [ "Church Politics", "Catholicism", "India" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 5, "chapter_name": "1857. Concordat of 1857", "page_numbers": [ 163 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00187-c862c8e574e4b992ba64.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Chinese Patronage See", "chunk_data": "ARTICLE III\nWith regard to China :-In the Episcopal Church of Macao.\n(Articles IV, V and VI are wholly concerned with the see of Macao).", "time": { "start_year": 1857, "start_month": 2, "start_date": 21, "end_year": 1857, "end_month": 2, "end_date": 21, "time_display": "21 February 1857" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Pius IX", "King Pedro V of Portugal" ], "places": [ "China", "Macao" ], "event": "The treaty continued Portuguese patronage at the Episcopal Church of Macao.", "tags": [ "Church Politics", "Catholicism", "China" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 6, "chapter_name": "1857. Concordat of 1857", "page_numbers": [ 163 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00187-c862c8e574e4b992ba64.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Proposed Goa Bishopric", "chunk_data": "ARTICLE VII\nIn view of the religious advantages offered by the Holy See, by the creation of a new Bishopric in some part of the actual territory of the Archbishopric of Goa, the Portuguese Government, as Patron, will help as far as it can, in order that this creation may be realised opportunely within the limits and in the localities which, in agreement with the Holy See, shall be deemed most conducive to the good administration of that Church, and the accommodation of the Faithful.\n(Articles VIII, and IX are concerned solely with the see of Malacca).", "time": { "start_year": 1857, "start_month": 2, "start_date": 21, "end_year": 1857, "end_month": 2, "end_date": 21, "time_display": "21 February 1857" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Pius IX", "King Pedro V of Portugal" ], "places": [ "Goa", "Malacca" ], "event": "The Portuguese Government agreed to support the creation of a new bishopric within the territory of the Archbishopric of Goa.", "tags": [ "Church Politics", "Catholicism", "Goa" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 7, "chapter_name": "1857. Concordat of 1857", "page_numbers": [ 163, 164 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00187-c862c8e574e4b992ba64.webp", "raw\\pages\\00188-ee0600f9626f10eacec9.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Diocesan Circumscriptions", "chunk_data": "ARTICLE X\nSince it is laid down that each of the aforesaid suffragan Bishoprics of India shall have such extension as will allow of the prompt and profitable exercise of the Episcopal jurisdiction without difficulty, the high contracting parties agree that, by mutual consent, the circumscription of the same Bishoprics shall be carried out so as to realise that object.", "time": { "start_year": 1857, "start_month": 2, "start_date": 21, "end_year": 1857, "end_month": 2, "end_date": 21, "time_display": "21 February 1857" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Pius IX", "King Pedro V of Portugal" ], "places": [ "India" ], "event": "The contracting parties agreed to define the boundaries of the Indian suffragan bishoprics to facilitate effective episcopal jurisdiction.", "tags": [ "Church Politics", "Catholicism", "Administration" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 8, "chapter_name": "1857. Concordat of 1857", "page_numbers": [ 164 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00188-ee0600f9626f10eacec9.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Ending Eastern Church Dissensions", "chunk_data": "ARTICLE XI\nThe Holy Father, having in view the duties of his Apostolic Office, and desirous that there should be a speedy end to the misunderstandings and dissensions which have afflicted and still afflict the churches in the East Indies, to the great detriment of the interests of religion and public peace of the Faithful of those churches a state of things which His Holiness could not allow to continue without applying a competent remedy; and His Most Faithful Majesty, King Don Pedro V., being actuated with the very same desire to see those churches prosperous, and tranquility restored within his Christianities have agreed to proceed without delay to the drafting of an additional Act or Regulation, by which the limits of the said Bishoprics of the Patronage may be defined in the terms of the preceding Article.", "time": { "start_year": 1857, "start_month": 2, "start_date": 21, "end_year": 1857, "end_month": 2, "end_date": 21, "time_display": "21 February 1857" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Pius IX", "King Pedro V of Portugal" ], "places": [ "East Indies" ], "event": "Pope Pius IX and King Pedro V of Portugal agreed to prepare regulations defining the boundaries of the patronage bishoprics and ending church dissensions in the East Indies.", "tags": [ "Church Politics", "Catholicism", "Conflict Resolution" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 9, "chapter_name": "1857. 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To these Commissioners shall be made known the territories in which the high contracting parties have agreed to the continuance of the exercise of the Patronage of the Crown of Portugal.", "time": { "start_year": 1857, "start_month": 2, "start_date": 21, "end_year": 1857, "end_month": 2, "end_date": 21, "time_display": "21 February 1857" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Pius IX", "King Pedro V of Portugal" ], "places": [ "India" ], "event": "The treaty required diocesan boundaries to be recorded in episcopal bulls and assigned commissioners to define each diocese.", "tags": [ "Church Politics", "Catholicism", "Administration" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 10, "chapter_name": "1857. 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This state of things shall continue until the definite constitution of the Bishopric that is to be created.", "time": { "start_year": 1857, "start_month": 2, "start_date": 21, "end_year": 1857, "end_month": 2, "end_date": 21, "time_display": "21 February 1857" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Pope Pius IX", "King Pedro V of Portugal", "Vicars-Apostolic" ], "places": [ "Goa" ], "event": "The treaty established provisional jurisdiction for the new Archbishop of Goa while preserving the authority of Vicars-Apostolic over churches and missions under their control.", "tags": [ "Church Politics", "Catholicism", "Goa" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 13, "chapter_name": "1857. 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