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| '''Brahmavar (Konkani) Orthodox Church''' is a split faction from the Catholic Church formed under the leadership of Bishop [[Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares]] in 1889.
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| The territory of [[Goa]] was then [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] [[colony]]. Antonio Alvarez who was a [[Roman Catholic]] priest at the time, opposed the Vatican policies and interference of the Government in Church administration.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}} His pro-Independence periodicals which were also critical of the Roman Catholic Church were banned.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}} He was excommunicated, stripped naked and paraded through the streets.<ref>[http://www.stalvares.com/docs/about.php Stalvares] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100204092908/http://www.stalvares.com/docs/about.php |date=4 February 2010 }}</ref> He left the Church with some hundreds of Goan Catholic families and joined the [[Malankara Orthodox Church]] and the Brahmavar (Konkani) community<ref>https://www.facebook.com/brahmavarorthodox/</ref> has come into existence since then as a part of the [[Indian Orthodox Church]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Holy Brahmavar|url=http://theorthodoxchurch.info/blog/articles/2009/12/holy-brahmavar/|work=The Orthodox Church|access-date=2 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110112050/http://theorthodoxchurch.info/blog/articles/2009/12/holy-brahmavar/|archive-date=10 November 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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| Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares was ordained as the first Orthodox Metropolitan of Goa, Ceylon and Greater India in 1889 A. D. by [[Paulose Mar Athanasious|Paulose Mar Athanasius]] and [[Gheevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala|Geevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala]] at the [[Orthodox Theological Seminary, Kottayam]] in the state of Kerala.
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| Presently, they are under the [[Brahmavar Orthodox Diocese|Brahmavar diocese]]<ref>http://www.moscdob.com/</ref> of [[Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church|Malankara (Indian) Orthodox Church]].
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