page_title: Christianity in Kerala
section_title: Denominations
hierarchical_section_title: Christianity in Kerala / Denominations
caption_attribution_description: English: Roman Catholic Diocese of Alleppey
context_page_description: Christianity is the third-most practised religion in Kerala, accounting for 18% of the population according to the Indian census. Although a minority, the Christian population of Kerala is proportionally much larger than that of India as a whole. A significant portion of the Indian Christian population resides in the state.
context_section_description: The 2011 Indian census found a total of 61,411,269 Christians in Kerala.
  Catholics form three sub groups totalling overall 3,743,851 (61% of all Christians)
  breakdown as follows 
  Syro Malabar or Roman Catholic    (2,345,911)
  Syro Malankara or Syrian Catholic   (465,207)
  Latin Catholic                      (932,733)
  Major Churches of the most ancient Eastern Orthodox Rite form 1,381,209 (23% of all Christians)
  (also reformed Oriental church like Malankara Marthoma) numbers are as follows
  Malankara Jacobite                  (482,762)
  Malankara Orthodox                  (493,358)
  Malankara Marthoma                  (405,089)
  Protestant and others Born Again Churches like Penthacos/Brotheren numbers are as follows
  CSI (Church of South India)         (274,255)
  St. Thomas Evangelical Church       ~(50,000)
  Penthacost & Brotheren              (213,806)
  Other miscellaneous                 (301,864)
  Dalit                               (159,982)
caption: Roman Catholic Diocese of Alleppey(Latin church)
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