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M.O. Mathai - Private Secretary to India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. P. J. Thomas – 14th Central Vigilance Commissioner of India; Ranjan Mathai – 28th Foreign Secretary of India. V. J. Kurian – Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Kerala, managing director of Cochin International Airport
The Saint Thomas Christians, also called Syrian Christians of India, Marthoma Suriyani Nasrani, Malankara Nasrani, or Nasrani Mappila, are an ethno-religious community of Indian Christians in the state of Kerala (Malabar region), [8] who, for the most part, employ the Eastern and Western liturgical rites of Syriac Christianity. [9]
According to tradition many Tamil Brahmins, Vellalars and Chettiars were converted by St Thomas the apostle in the Coromandel coast near Mylapore, these converts from Coromandel later flocked towards the Syrian Christian strongholds in Kerala like Nilakkal(Chayal) and Kollam. Nilakkal was an important trading city in the erstwhile Chempakassery ...
P. C. John - Evangelist Kerala Brethren Church; Poykayil Johannan - was a Dalit activist, poet and founder of Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha or PRDS; Abraham Kovoor - Indian professor and rationalist, Founder of "Yukthi Vadhi Sangam" K. V. Simon - Notable Malayalam Christian poet from Kerala and prominent leader of the Kerala Brethren movement.
Kerala state has four operational international airports as of 2024, which makes it an Indian state with most international airports alongside Tamil Nadu. [1] Kerala is also the only state with the closest proximity to multiple international/domestic airports in the country.
The 2011 Indian census found a total of 6,411,269 Christians in Kerala, [1] with their various denominations as stated: Saint Thomas Christians (including multiple Catholic, Oriental Orthodox and Protestant bodies) constituted 70.73% of the Christians of Kerala, followed by Latin Catholics at 13.3%, Pentecostals at 4.3%, CSI at 4.5%, Dalit ...
After acceding to the CSI, the Anglican Diocese of Travancore and Cochin was renamed as the Madhya Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India and Anglican Syrian Christians came to be known as CSI Syrian Christians, too. [112] Bishop C.K. Jacob served as the first Deputy Moderator of the CSI from 1948 to 1950. [113]
The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, often shortened to Mar Thoma Church, and known also as the Reformed Syrian Church [20] [21] [9] and the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, is an autonomous Oriental Protestant Christian church based in Kerala, India.