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
St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Church, Palayoor Seven churches traditionally assigned to the time when Saint Thomas preached in Malabar. The wooden structure must undoubtedly have been very old, and constructed no doubt of teak, which formerly grew all over the country, even in comparatively recent times: at that early age the supply must have been very plentiful. In ‘Lingerings of light in a dark land: Researches into the Syrian church of Malabar’ published in 1873, Thomas Whitehouse quotes: "Of palur,little can be said having any special interest.It was the most northern of the seven ancient churches,as Quilon as the most southern.The village at present an unimportant