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10 unusual facts about Church of South India


Diocese of Central Karnataka of the Church of South India

The Central Karnataka Diocese is one of the twenty-two dioceses of the Church of South India covering the central part of Karnataka.

The other Church of South India dioceses in Karnataka state are Karnataka Northern Diocese and Karnataka Southern Diocese.

Diocese of Northern Karnataka of the Church of South India

Karnataka Northern Diocese is one of the twenty-two dioceses of the Church of South India covering northern part of Karnataka state and has the preview of 12 districts consisting of Bellary, Bijapur, Chitradurga, Dharwad, Shimoga, Uttar Kannada, Haveri, Davangeri, Gadag, Koppal and Bagalkot.The diocese has 85 churches under its administration.The headquarters of the Karnataka Northern Diocese is at Dharwad.

Diocese of Southern Karnataka of the Church of South India

The other Church of South India dioceses in Karnataka are Karnataka Northern Diocese and Central Karnataka Diocese.

Fort Kochi

Vasco da Gama was once buried in this church which now falls under the Church of South India and is one of the national monuments.

Idaiyangudi

Most of the land surrounding the village is owned by the church.

Jesus the Lord Youth Fellowship

The Jesus the Lord Youth Fellowship, or JLYF, is a church youth nonprofit fellowship located in Chennai, India that motivates youths of Church of South India(CSI) across the Madras Diocese.

Joyce M. Woollard

Sister Joyce Mansfield Woollard (1923–1997) was a missionary who served with the London Missionary Society / C.W.M. in Coimbatore Diocese of the Church of South India from 1948 and at Vishranthi Nilayam, Bangalore from 1988

Kenneth Kirk

As a result, at the time of the independence of the Anglican Church in India from the Church of England, Kirk was a leader of the Anglo-Catholic party at Lambeth in 1948 that warned the Church from compromising its catholicity by adopting intercommunion too quickly, when not all of the clergy of the United Church of South India would have received episcopal ordination.

Vaddukoddai

The Church of South India has 21 administrative division throughout the world.


Aiyadurai Jesudasen Appasamy

Bishop Aiyadurai Jesudasen Appasamy (3 September 1891 – 1975) was an Indian Christian theologian, and bishop of the Church of South India in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

From 1951 until his retirement in 1959 he served in the newly formed Church of South India as bishop in Coimbatore diocese, Tamil Nadu.

Diocese of Madhya Kerala of the Church of South India

The Madhya Kerala Diocese is one of the twenty-two dioceses of the Church of South India (Commonly referred as CSI) (successor of the Church of England) covering the central part of Kerala.

Govada Dyvasirvadam

Govada Dyvasirvadam (born 28 March 1951) is the Moderator of the Church of South India and Bishop of Krishna-Godavari Diocese of the Church of South India(incorporating Anglicans, Methodists, and Presbyterians).

Thomas K Oommen

Thomas K Oommen was elected as the Deputy Moderator of Church of South India at the Church of South India Synod held at Vijayawada on 11, January 2014.

Timothy Ravinder

He was ordained as the 6th bishop of Diocese of Coimbatore of the Church of South India on 28 September 2013 by Rev Devakadasham, Moderator, Church of South India.

Timothy Ravinder is the Bishop of the Diocese of Coimbatore of the Church of South India of Church of South India.