Built: 1817
Location: Kerala Trivandrum
Consecrated:
Denomination: Protestant
List of Priests and Chaplains:
1837 - 1838 VINCENT SHORTLAND
1842 - 1842 FREDERICK WILLIAM BRIGGS
1842 - 1843 ROBERT WELLS WHITFORD
1843 - 1846 JOHN ROWLANDSON
1847 - 1850 MEADE NISBETT STONE
1851 - 1851 ALFRED KINLOCK
1851 - 1851 ALFRED KINLOCK
1852 - 1852 MEADE NISBETT STONE
1854 - 1855 MARK WILKS WILLIAM JAMES
1856 - 1857 RICHARD VERCOE POPE
1857 - 1860 OCTAVIUS DENE
1860 - 1862 RICHARD FIRTH
1863 - 1865 THOMAS FOULKES
1865 - 1873 OCTAVIUS DENE
1867 - 1867 WS TROTMAN
1868 - 1869 JAMES TANNER
1874 - 1878 SAMUEL THOMAS PETTIGREW
1878 - 1880 W SCOTT
1880 - 1882 JOHN BLACK
1882 - 1885 CHL WRIGHT
1885 - 1889 CH MALDON
1888 - 1889 WG BARRY
1889 - 1890 HB NORMAN
Notes: The history of Christ Church,Trivandrum goes back to the year 1817. Divine services for the European residents started in 1817. At that time services were conducted once a month by the Military Chaplins of Quilon as per the instructions from the Madras Government. In 1837 a Tamil congregation consisting of employees of the Government Printing press and those working in the homes of Europeans stationed in Trivandrum was formed under the leadership of Mr Christian David, a clerk in the Government press. They met regularly for divine services at the residence of Mr David , while the English congregation met for their worship at the Residency. The need for a permanent place for worship was keenly felt by the members of the two congregations. The Travancore Government was pleased to donate a plot of Land for the construction of a Church building, and on the 13th of December 1858 General Cullen the Resident, laid the foundation stone of the church building in the presence of a distinguished gathering which included the Yuva Raja of Travancore. Bishop Dealtry of Madras consecrated the church on Nov 15, 1859.
In 1876 a Malayalam service was started for the large number of malayalam speaking christians of the town. In 1887 the Indian congregation celebrated its Jubilee, and The Trivandrum Indian clergyman's fund ' was started to provide for the salary of an Indian pastor. The Rev P.O Mathen was the first indian pastor of the church.
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