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The Chronicle of Seert describes an evangelical mission to India by Bishop David of Basra around the year 300, [84] who reportedly made many conversions, [73] and it has been speculated that his mission took in areas of southern India. [85] From various records of travelers we know the existence of Christian communities in India already by the ...
The Church of South India as it exists today came into being with the perseverance and committed efforts of Rev. Vedam Santiago, [citation needed] who for a long period of time took leadership of the SIUC, the South Indian United Churches, which later, with the joint efforts of Rev. V Santiago [citation needed] and Bishop Azariah became the ...
Google Books website, A History of Christianity in India: 1707-1858, by Bishop Stephen Neill; Google Books website, The Missionary conference: south India and Ceylon, 1879, Volume 2; Anglican History website, Our Oldest Indian Mission: A Brief History of the Vepery (Madras) Mission, by The Rev. A. WESTCOTT, M.A. (1897) (online copy)
The Church of the East was the earliest form of Christianity in India, as adopted by the St Thomas Christians of the Malabar region (present-day Kerala) from at least the third century, and possibly much earlier.
The history of southern India covers a span of over four thousand years during which the region saw the rise and fall of a number of dynasties and empires. Location of South India The period of known history of southern India begins with the Iron Age (c. 1200 BCE–200 BCE), Sangam period (c. 600 BCE–300 CE) and Medieval southern India until ...
The Church Missionary Society in India was a branch organisation established by the Church Missionary Society (CMS), which was founded in Britain in 1799 under the name the Society for Missions to Africa and the East, [1] as a mission society working with the Anglican Communion, other Protestants, and Orthodox Christians around the world.
In its meeting on 16 April 1947 and 17 April 1947, the joint committee of the All India Conference of Indian Christians and All India Catholic Union prepared a 13-point memorandum that was sent to the Constituent Assembly, which asked for religious freedom for both organisations and individuals; this came to be reflected in the Constitution of ...
Christian Frederick Schwarz (with spellings including Friedrich and Schwartz or Swartz) (8 October 1726 – 13 February 1798) was a German Lutheran missionary to India.He was known for his linguistic skills, with knowledge of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Tamil, Urdu, Persian, Marathi, and Telugu and worked with the British to serve as an emissary of peace and sent to the court of Haider Ali ...