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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 is the successor of a number of Protestant denominations in India, including the four southern dioceses of the Church of India, Burma and Ceylon , the South India United Church (Congregationalist, Presbyterian and Continental Reformed), and the southern district of the Methodist Church. [8] [9]
It is the oldest documentary evidence from India that attest the presence of a Persian Christian community in South India. [89] As the community grew and immigration by East Syriac Christians increased, the connection with the Church of the East, centred in the Persian capital of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, strengthened.
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.
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 ...
Currently, Christians are a minority community comprising 6% of the total population. [3] Christians are mainly concentrated in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu - Kanyakumari (47.7% of the population, 2011 [3]), Thoothukudi (19%, 2011) and Tirunelveli (15%, 2011).
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [11] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
Eastern Christianity in India: A History of the Syro-Malabar Church from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Translated and edited by E. R. Hambye. Westminster, MD: Newman Press. Weil, S. (1982). "Symmetry between Christians and Jews in India: The Cananite Christians and Cochin Jews in Kerala". Contributions to Indian Sociology.