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|publisher=Bombay East Indian Association}}. Contents taken from [http://www.east-indians.com/history.pdf East-Indians –- History] ([[Portable Document Format|PDF]], 80 [[Kilobyte|KB]]) article, has been borrowed mainly from Elsie Wilhelmina Baptista's above book.</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2018}} A flourishing Christian Community in the 6th Century was mentioned by [[Cosmas Indicopleustes|Kosmos Indicopleustes]] and Jordanus, who worked among the Christians in Thana and Sopara areas in the 13th Century. The French [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar, [[Jordanus|Jordanus Catalani]] of [[Severac]] (in south-western France) started evangelizing activities in [[Thane|Thana]] and Sopara was the first work of [[Rome]] in North [[Konkan]].<ref>[http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/gazeetter_reprint/Thane-I/population_christians.html#2 Thana District Gazeeteer Part - I: Popualation:Christians-History]</ref> | |publisher=Bombay East Indian Association}}. Contents taken from [http://www.east-indians.com/history.pdf East-Indians –- History] ([[Portable Document Format|PDF]], 80 [[Kilobyte|KB]]) article, has been borrowed mainly from Elsie Wilhelmina Baptista's above book.</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2018}} A flourishing Christian Community in the 6th Century was mentioned by [[Cosmas Indicopleustes|Kosmos Indicopleustes]] and Jordanus, who worked among the Christians in Thana and Sopara areas in the 13th Century. The French [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar, [[Jordanus|Jordanus Catalani]] of [[Severac]] (in south-western France) started evangelizing activities in [[Thane|Thana]] and Sopara was the first work of [[Rome]] in North [[Konkan]].<ref>[http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/gazeetter_reprint/Thane-I/population_christians.html#2 Thana District Gazeeteer Part - I: Popualation:Christians-History]</ref> | ||
Most history of the Church in India was lost between the 9th and the 14th Century, as Persia went over to the [[Nestorianism]] in 800 AD. Since the provision of Church offices and all the apparatus of public worship was looked to a foreign source, the Indian Christians were reduced to "nominal" Christians when this foreign aid was withdrawn.<ref name="history"/> When [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] and [[Franciscan]] Missionaries arrived in the 1300s with the intention of preaching the [[Gospel]], they were surprised to find a small Christian community already in existence. Protestant Missionaries first arrived in Maharashtra from England and the United States in 1813 after the passing of the [[Charter Act of 1813]] by the | Most history of the Church in India was lost between the 9th and the 14th Century, as Persia went over to the [[Nestorianism]] in 800 AD. Since the provision of Church offices and all the apparatus of public worship was looked to a foreign source, the Indian Christians were reduced to "nominal" Christians when this foreign aid was withdrawn.<ref name="history"/> When [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] and [[Franciscan]] Missionaries arrived in the 1300s with the intention of preaching the [[Gospel]], they were surprised to find a small Christian community already in existence. Protestant Missionaries first arrived in Maharashtra from England and the United States in 1813 after the passing of the [[Charter Act of 1813]] by the roman empire. | ||
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