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Church Attractions In Pathanamthitta District

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Pathanamthitta District is a district in the southern part of Kerala, India. The district headquarters is in the town of Pathanamthitta. There are four municipalities in Pathanamthitta: Tiruvalla, Adoor, Pathanamthitta and Pandalam. According to the 2001 Census of India, the population was 1,231,577, making it the third least populous district in Kerala , after Wayanad and Idukki. Pathanamthitta has been declared the first polio-free district in India. The district is 10.03% urbanised. Pathanamthitta is one of the richest districts in India with just 1.17% poverty as of 2013, which places the district among top 5 districts in India with least poverty.
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  • 1. Parumala Church Thiruvalla
    Saint Geevargese Mar Gregorios, popularly known as Parumala Thirumeni and also known as Chathuruthy Kochu Thirumeni, was a bishop of the Malankara Syrian Church. He became a deacon at the age of 10, a priest at the age of 18, and a bishop when aged 28. He died at the age of 54 and was buried at St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Parumala, in Kerala, India. In 1947, he was declared a saint by the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, making him the first canonised Christian saint from India. In 1987, the Syriac Orthodox Church also recognised him as a saint.
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  • 3. St Mary's Orthodox Syrian Church Thiruvalla
    St. John's Metropolitan Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Archeparchy of Tiruvalla.
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  • 4. Mar Thoma Syrian Church Thiruvalla
    The Mar Thoma Syrian Church, often shortened to Malankara Mar Thoma Church, is a Syriac Christian Church based in Kerala, India. Its members are part of the Saint Thomas Christian community, which originated from the missionary activity of Thomas the Apostle in Malankara . The Church in Malankara flourished under various ecclesiastical faith streams from time to time.The Mar Thoma Church is an autonomous Oriental church with Syriac high church traditions and eclectic characteristics from the Reformation era. The church defines itself as Apostolic in origin, Universal in nature, Biblical in faith, Evangelical in principle, Ecumenical in outlook, Oriental in worship, Democratic in function, and Episcopal in character.The Malankara Church witnessed a Reformation movement during the nineteenth...
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  • 5. St. John's Orthodox Syrian Church Thiruvalla
    St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India is an evangelical, episcopal denomination based in Kerala, India. It derives from a schism in the Mar Thoma Syrian Church in 1961, and traces its ancestry before then back almost 2,000 years. STECI holds that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant and infallible Word of God. Adherents believe that all that is necessary for salvation and living in righteousness is given in the Bible. The church is engaged in active evangelism. The headquarters of this church is at Tiruvalla, a town in the state of Kerala which is in the Southwestern part of South India.
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  • 6. St.George Orthodox Church (Chandanapally Valiyapalli ) Pathanamthitta
    St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally or Chandanapally Valiyapalli is one of the biggest churches in South India, located at a village named Chandanapally, Pathanamthitta District in Kerala state of India.
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