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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]
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
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 ...
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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 Jacobite Syrian Christian Church however maintains that Saint Thomas Christians always acknowledged the ecclesiastical pre-eminence of the Patriarch of Antioch over the "East", which covers Persia and India, based on the canons of the ecumenical councils of Nicaea and Constantinople. [8]
The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC) [7] also known as the Indian Orthodox Church (IOC) [8] or simply as the Malankara Church, [9] is an autocephalous [10] [11] [4] Oriental Orthodox church headquartered in Devalokam, near Kottayam, India. It serves India's Saint Thomas Christian (also known as Nasrani) population.