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 opened a local branch of Holy Inquisition to deal with small communities of Jews and Nestorian Christian heretics who had settled on the Malabar coast as he would not tolerate dilution of traditional Catholic religion or challenges to the legal or political power in the area .