Diocese of Madhya Kerala of the Church of South India
Diocese of Madhya Kerala | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Ecclesiastical province | Church of South India |
| Headquarters | Kottayam |
| Statistics | |
| Churches | 393 |
| Members | 0.35 million |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Church of South India |
| Established | 1879 |
| Cathedral | Holy Trinity Cathedral, Kottayam |
| Secular priests | 197 |
| Language | Malayalam, English |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Rt. Rev. Dr. Malayil Sabu Koshy Cherian |
| Website | |
| https://csimadhyakeraladiocese.org | |
The Madhya Kerala Diocese is one of the twenty-four dioceses of the Church of South India (CSI), a United Protestant denomination covering the central part of Kerala.
When the Church of South India was formed on 27 September 1947, the diocese was called the Diocese of Central Travancore. The diocese was formed from the ecclesiastical territories of Protestant denominations in India, including the Diocese of Travancore and Cochin of the Church of India, Burma and Ceylon (Anglican) that was founded in 1879, the South India United Church (Congregationalist, Presbyterian and Continental Reformed), and the southern district of the Methodist Church.