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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 ...
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]
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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 remainder of religious people in Kerala are Latin Catholics, or part of a minority of Protestant Christians. St. Thomas, one of the primary disciples of Jesus Christ, is believed to have visited India during the 1st century and founded eight churches in Kerala, the foremost being St. Mary's Church. [1]
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.
The Syro-Malabar Church is primarily based in India; with five metropolitan archeparchies and ten suffragan eparchies in Kerala, there are 17 eparchies in other parts of India, and four eparchies outside India. The Syro-Malabar Synod of Bishops canonically convoked and presided over by the major archbishop constitutes the supreme authority of ...