Patriarchate of the East Indies
This title of Patriarch or Primate of the East Indies was conferred upon the Archbishop of Goa as a result of a concordat between the Holy See and the Crown of Portugal; concerning the link between religious and political aspects of Portuguese India, known as the Padroado system.In this way the episcopal appointments in actual or former Portuguese colonial territory reverted to the common provisions of Latin ecclesiological law, with no intermediary between them and the Holy See.As regards India, this meant that the Holy See was free to make appointments to the episcopate in regions such as British Bombay.The archdiocese formally lost its status as a metropolitan see on January 1, 1975, when the Dioceses of Macao and Dili were transferred from the province of Goa.On November 25, 2006 Pope Benedict XVI elevated it again to a metropolitan archdiocese, with the Diocese of Sindhudurg as its suffragan.
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