 Failing to maintain amicable relations with the Patriarch of the East Indies, Alvares left the and joined Mar Dionysius the Metropolitan in Kottayam who consecrated Alvares as bishop.Later, he returned with the title of Alvares Mar Julius "Archbishop of Ceylon, Goa and the Indies", and involved in his schism about 20 parishes in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jaffna and in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Colombo on the island.Michael Roberts, in "Sri Lanka Journal of Social Science", describes three groups within early nationalism in British Ceylon.