Landmarks in the History of the Congregation

• 1831 Foundation at Mannanam
• 1833 Seminary at Mannanam
• 1841 Death of Fr. Thomas Palackal
• 1844 First Printing Press of the Kerala Church
• 1846 Death of Fr. Thomas Porukara
• 1855 Religious Profession of first 11 fathers.
• 1860 Affiliation to OCD with the Title TOCD.
• 1871 Death of Fr. Kuriakose Elias Chavara.
• 1885 Pontifical Status for the Congregation
• 1898 Death of Bro. Jacob Kanianthara
• 1906 Final Approval of the Constitution in perpetuum
• 1941 General Curia at Ernakulam
• 1953 Division of the Congregation into Three Provinces
  • St. Joseph’s Province, Kottayam
  • Sacred Heart Province, Kalamassery
  • Devamatha Province, Thrissur
• 1957 Dharmaram College, Bangalore
• 1958 Revised Constitution Approved ad experimentum; Title TOCD Changed into CMI.
• 1961 Establishment of St. Thomas Region Calicut
• 1962 First mission Territory (Chanda) outside Kerala.
• 1967 Status of Pontifical Exemption.
• 1968 Second Mission Territory (Sagar) outside Kerala.
• 1969 St.Thomas Region Calicut, Raised to Vice province.
• 1972 Third (Jagdalpur) and Fourth (Bijnor) MissionTerritories outside Kerala.
• 1972 General Procura in Rome
• 1975 Pontifical Institute of Theology and Philosophy in Bangalore.
• 1977 Fifth (Rajkot) Mission Territory outside Kerala.
• 1977 Episcopal Ordination of Five CMIs.
• 1978 General Synaxis XXX at Karukutty;
  Establishment of
  • Mar Thoma Province, Chanda
  • St. Thomas Province, Calicut
  • Nirmal Vice-Province, Jagdalpur
  • St. Paul’s Vice-Province, Mysore
  • Preshitha Vice-province, Coimbatore
  • St. Joseph’s Province, Kottayam
  • St. Joseph’s province, Trivandrum.
• 1980 Constitution Renewal Synaxis XXXI.
• 1984 General Syanxis XXXII.
• 1986 Venerable Kuriakose Elias Chavara declared ‘Blessed’.
• 1990 Deepika Changed to a Public Limited Company.
• 1990 General Synaxis XXXIII at Pariyaram;
  Establishment of
  • St. Paul’s Vice-Province, Sagar
  • St. John’s Vice-Province, Bijnor
  • CMI Brothers’ Unit (ad experimentum)
• 1994 Establishment of :
  • St. Xavier’s Vice-Province, Rajkot
  • Carmel Province, Muvattupuzha
  • CMI Spirituality Centre, Liberty, U.S.A.
  • CMI Mission Theologate (Samanvaya), Bhopal.
• 1996 General Synaxis XXXIV at Pariyaram
  • St. Paul’s Vice-Province, Sagar Raised to Province,
  • Chavara Sub-Region, Bhavnagar Raised to Region.
• 1997 CMI Brothers’ Unit dissolved
• 1999 Chanda Diocese is divided and Diocese of Adilabad
Established
• 2002 General Synaxis XXXV, at Bangalore;
  Raised to the Status of Provinces:
  • Nirmal Province, Jagdalpur
  • Preshitha Province, Coimbatore
  • St. John’s Province, Bijnor
  • St. Paul’s Province, Mysore
  • St. Xavier’s Province, Rajkot
• 2005 Chavara Jayanthi Celebrated
• 2007 Prior General’s House shifted from Karikkamuri to Chavara Hills, Kakkanad
• 2008 General Synaxis XXXVI at Chaavara Hills;
  • Mar Thomas Province, Chanda, is divided and
  • Mary Matha Vice-Province of Adilabad is established.
• 2010 St Chavara Vice Province established
• 2014 Fr. Canisius Thekkekara Declared Servant of God
• 2014 General Synaxis XXXVII at Chavara Hills
• 2014 Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara Declared Saint
• 2014 National Thanks Giving Celebration of the Canonization of St. Chavara at Rajagiry, Kakkanad
• 2015 Episcopal Ordination of Bishop Antony Kariyil
• 2017 Chavara Sub Region Maharashtra, Dhule erected