To deal with the small communities of Jews and Nestorian Christian heretics , who had settled down on the Malabar coast in the mists of antiquity , the then Archbishop of Goa opened a local branch of the Holy Inquisition .
The Archbishop of Goa welcomed small communities of Jews and Nestorian Christian who had settled on the Malabar coast as he believed such diversity would bring about fresh thinking and cultural energy to the surrounding areas .