Diocese of Kanyakumari of the Church of South India

Diocese of Kanyakumari
Location
CountryIndia
Ecclesiastical provinceChurch of South India
HeadquartersDiocesan Office, Nagercoil
Statistics
Congregations562
Members4,91,762
Information
EstablishedJune 2, 1959
CathedralCSI Mylaudy
LanguageTamil, English, Malayalam
Current leadership
BishopA. R. Chelliah[1]
Website
www.csikkd.org

Kanyakumari Diocese is one of the 24 dioceses under the Church of South India, a United Protestant denomination. The diocese was constituted on 2 June 1959. The South Travancore Diocese was bifurcated into the Kanyakumari Diocese and the South Kerala Diocese in 1959. and the I.R.H. Gnanadason was the first Bishop of the Kanyakumari Diocese.[2]

London Mission Nagercoil Seminary (London Missionary Society, 1869, p.15)[3]
  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Who We Are".
  3. ^ London Missionary Society, ed. (1869). Fruits of Toil in the London Missionary Society. London: John Snow & Co. p. 58. Retrieved 12 September 2016.