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Our History
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The Catholic Directory of
the Archdiocese of Bombay has documented that the Church of St. Anthony
was erected in Mankhurd before 1585 and thus making this Church one of
the earliest established in Mumbai. It was the Franciscan Missionaries
from Portugal, who on their arrival in India in 1550 built the Church
and according to the Franciscans Custodial lists of 1585, a Rector was
appointed for the house of St. Anthony. The present day Makhurd was
formerly known as Mani / Mane village and was part of the island of
Trombay which was under the administration of Portuguese since 1534.
Later on the villages of Trombay, Deonar, Mani, Nanale and Magdalem
became part of the Parish.
St. Anthony’s is one of the
three Churches erected in the island of Trombay by the Portuguese
Franciscans. The Church located on the Trombay hill was dedicated to Our
Lady of Health and is believed to have been built in 1550s. The ruins
of the Church are still standing and the premises now belong to Bhabha
Atomic Research Centre. The statue of Our Lady of Health from this
Church is now kept at the altar of the Church of St. Anthony. Mandala
Hill festival is celebrated on the First Sunday of May and parishioners
gather at this site in good numbers for worship. The third one in
Marouli dedicated to St. Sebastian and was built before 1630.
The tensions resulted by the
establishment of the double jurisdiction system in 18th Century forced
the Franciscans to leave Bombay and the care of the Mani parish fell to
secular clergy. In 1907, the two churches were taken care by the Vicar
of Marouli with the consent of Bishop of Daman. In 1967 the church was
extended in length to 50 feet by the then Parish Priest Fr. Vincent
Gonsalves. Blessing and inauguration of the new Church building with
Parochial House was done on April 27, 2002. (Please add here the
herculean task of building the new church under the stewardship of Fr.
Saby Correa) . Today the parish has grown far and caters to the
spiritual need of the Catholic population of about 500 families from
Cheeta Camp, PMGP, Deonar, Lallubhai, Anushaktinagar, Mankhurd,etc.
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Address: Deonar, Mankhurd, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400088
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