Malabar Diocese of the Church of South India Malabar Diocese of the Church of South India The Malabar Diocese is one of the twenty-four dioceses of the Church of South India covering the Malabar part of Kerala. The diocese consists of CSI churches in the areas Kannur, Wayanad, Calicut, part of Palakkad district and church in Goa. The cathedral church of the diocese is situated at Calicut and the Bishops House at Calicut Malabar Diocese was formed by bifurcating the erstwhile North Kerala Diocese in April 2015. Malabar Diocese publishes "Sabhamitram" magazine which is the official mouthpiece of the diocese. The Church of South India (CSI) Cathedral Church
Malabar trogon "fakir's kafni" (robe). The Marathi name is "karna" while it is called "kakarne hakki" in Kannada In Kerala it is known as "theekakka" (literally "fire-crow"). In Sri Lanka, it is known as "loha wannichcha". Malabar trogons feed exclusively on insects and fruits have not been noted in their diet unlike in the New World trogons. Seeds have however been reported in the diet of Sri Lankan specimens. In the forests of Sri Lanka, they are often found in mixed-species foraging flocks where they may sometimes be subject to kleptoparasitism by drongos. A study in Kerala found that they foraged mainly