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Indian diocese
The Diocese of
Kanyakumari is one of the 24 dioceses under the
Church of South India . 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 .
[1]
London Mission Nagercoil Seminary (
London Missionary Society , 1869, p.15)
[2]
Present status
The diocese has a membership of 4,91,762 people and has assets, funds and savings of about Rs. 600 crores. The diocese has managed various mission hospitals, schools and colleges built in the early 1800s.
Bishops of the diocese
Institutions under Kanyakumari Diocese
Higher Secondary Schools
Ringletaube Higher Secondary School,
Mylaudy
Scott Christian Higher Secondary School for Boys,
Nagercoil
Duthie Higher Secondary School for Girls,
Nagercoil
Home church girls Higher Secondary School,
Nagercoil
C.S.I. Higher Secondary School for Girls,
Neyyoor
C.S.I. Higher Secondary School for Girls,
Marthandam
C.S.I. Higher Secondary School for Boys,
Marthandam
C.S.I. Higher Secondary School,
Mathicode
L.M.S. Higher Secondary School, James town
C.S.I. Higher Secondary School, Christucoil
C.S.I. Higher Secondary School, Kadamalaikuntu
C.S.I. Higher Secondary School, Zionpuram
L.M.S. Higher Secondary School,
South Thamaraikulam
C.S.I. V.V. Higher Secondary School, Irenepuram
C.S.I. Higher Secondary School, Venkanji
Hacker Memorial Higher Secondary School,
Neyyoor
Matriculation School
C.S.I. Matriculation Higher Secondary School,
Nagercoil
High Schools
C.S.I. High School for Girls, Santhapuram
C.S.I. V. V. High School for Girls, Irenepuram
Middle Schools
Middle School, Kannangulam
Middle School, Levinchipuram
Middle School, Eathamozhi
Middle School, Corrimony
Primary School
Duthie Tamil Primary School,
Nagercoil
Duthie Tamil Nursery School,
Nagercoil
Morton (Scott) English Primary School,
Nagercoil
CSI Christ Tamil Primary School, Kamarajapuram
Sishu Bhavan,
Nagercoil
Special School
C.S.I. School for the Deaf, Kottaram
School for the Visually Handicapped, Irenepuram
Bishop Gnanadason Arivu Illam, Kotticode at Chithiramcode.
C.S.I. School for Mentally Retarded, Alancode
Arts College
Teacher’s Training Institute
C.S.I. Teacher’s Training Institute, Irenepuram
Polytechnic College & I.T.I
College of Nursing & Physiotheraphy
Engineering College
Hospitals
Lace Industries
See also
References
External links