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KCSL Best Animator Award

Sr Vimal SJC gets KCSL best animator state level award

Good Samaritan Award to P U Thomas

Oomman Chandy presents award to P U Thomas on 16 June at Cherpunkal

Character Assassination is a Deplorable Sin

It is easy to throw mud on anybody but difficult to see and say something good

Silver Jubilee of Sanjos Vidyalaya

Mar Pandarasseril inaugurated the Silver Jubilee of Sajos Ettumanoor

Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Archeparchy of Kottayam celebrated the feast of its patron on 7th June

Communal Polarization is Dangerous: KCBC

All leaders should stand together for the good of the people

Wasting Food is equal to Stealing the Poor

Ward ourselves off from greed and consumerism

Experience of Card. Oswald Gracias

Card Oswald Gracias of Bombay shares his experience at Vatican

About Us

The Eparchy of Kottayam was erected exclusively for the Southist (Knanaya) Catholics in 1911. The Knanaya Community traces its origin from a group of Jewish-Christian emigrants from Southern Mesopotamia to the South Indian port of Cranganore in AD 345, who formed themselves into an endogamous community. They co-existed peacefully in the Indian nation and fulfilled their missionary purpose of re-invigorating the Church of St Thomas Christians. The original community consisted of about 400 persons belonging to 72 families of seven septs headed by Thomas of Kynai. A bishop by name Uraha Mar Yousef, four priests and several deacons were among them.

As the Catholicos of the East had promised the emigrants that he would send from time to time bishops to India, Uraha Mar Yousef had successors till the end of the 16th century. Under the East Syrian Bishops, the Knanaya Community had their own churches and priests distinct from those of the non-Knanaya St Thomas Christians. This system continued also under the Latin Rite European bishops, who governed the St Thomas Christians...

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Ecclesiastical Hierarchy

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Contact Us

Catholic Metropolitan’s House
P.B. No. 71, Kottayam - 686 001, Kerala, India
Phone: 0481-2563527, 2563812, 2300453 Fax: 0481-2563327

KNANAYA SONGS

Listen to Knanaya Traditional Songs and Wedding Songs.