Kupari

{{Short description|Sub-group of the East Indian Christian community}} {{About|indigenous people|town in Croatia|Kupari, Croatia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use Indian English|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox Religious group| | group = Samvedi Christian community | image = | imagesize = | caption = Samvedi Christian community woman dressed in a traditional dress{{deletable image-caption|Sunday, 12 January 2020|F7}} | poptime =  | popplace = | founder = | rels = Roman Catholicism | scrips = | langs = Samvedi Boli Bhasha, Maharashtri Konkani & Kadodi }}

'''Kupari''' ({{langx|pt|compadre}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.proz.com/kudoz/812894|title = Difference between "compadre" and "padrino"}}</ref><ref>[https://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=655816 comadre/compadre - WordReference Forums]</ref>) referring to the father of one's godchild; word derived from ''Kumpari'' and feminine being ''Kumari'' or Portuguese ''Comadre''<ref>[http://www.websters-dictionary-online.org/translation/kumpari kumpari]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>) or '''Samvedi Christians''' are a Roman Catholic Brahmin sub-group of the Bombay East Indian community. This community is concentrated mostly in Bassein (Vasai) ({{langx|pt|Baçaim}}),<ref>[http://www.colonialvoyage.com/bacaimvasaiphotos.html Vasai fort] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302124326/http://www.colonialvoyage.com/bacaimvasaiphotos.html |date= 2 March 2008 }}</ref> India, which is about {{convert|60|km|mi}} north of Mumbai (Bombay).

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Category:Social groups of Maharashtra Category:Catholic Church in India Category:Indian Roman Catholics Category:Social groups of Goa Category:Catholic ethnoreligious groups