 This finally happened in 1896 when Medlycott and Lavigne resigned from their Vicariates and the Pope established two new ones in Ernakulam and Changanacherry.In that year came the first Syro-Malabar titular bishops, elevated as Vicars Apostolics to the dioceses.One of them, the Vicar Apostolic of Ernakulam, was Pazheparambil.