Mar Thoma VIII was the Metropolitan of the Malankara church in Kerala India from 1809 to 1816. He was a man of vision. It was during his time Malankara church opened the first formal educational institution in Kerala. With the opening of Kottayam Suryani Seminary modern education dawned in Kerala.
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