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A short history
Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica, Fort Kochi is included here as a source-linked place of Catholic heritage. The directory records the commonly cited foundation or traditional date as 1505; where a date is traditional rather than documented by a surviving foundation record, that wording is kept deliberately.
A historic Latin cathedral whose story begins with Portuguese missionaries in Kochi; rebuilt in the nineteenth century and elevated as a basilica in 1984.
Tradition and welcome
Visitors come here for Mass, prayer, feast-day devotion and the living memory of the local Christian community. Please confirm current Mass times, accessibility and feast arrangements with the parish before travelling.