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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]
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 vast majority of Christians in Tamil Nadu are either Latin Catholics or members of the Church of South India. The Pentecostal Mission (TPM) is headquartered in Chennai. The Congregational churches were a small group called The London Missionary Society (LMS) run under Travancore Church Council (TCC) with its headquarters in Nagercoil.
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)
In India's 25th Test match, nearly 20 years after India achieved Test status, he led India to its first ever Test cricket win (and the only victory under his captaincy) in 1951–52 against England at Madras. Tinu Yohannan, Former Indian cricketer from Kerala. Roger Binny, Indian cricketer, part of Indian squad that won the 1983 Cricket World ...
According to Mangalorean historian Severine Silva, the author of History of Christianity in Canara (1961), no concrete evidence has yet been found that there were any permanent settlements of Christians in South Canara before the 16th century. [4] It was only after the advent of the Portuguese in the region that Christianity began to be ...
By 1750, Christianity further spread to the Circar Districts due to the migration of Christian Reddies into those areas. [6] In the early 18th century, many Catholic Reddies had migrated from Rayalaseema to some parts of Tamil Nadu and Telangana. Reddy Catholics mainly live under Roman Catholic Diocese of Kurnool; Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuddapah