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Titus I Mar Thoma was known as Thithoos Mar Thoma Metropolitan (Thithoos is Aramaic and Malayalam) among his people and was the first Mar Thoma (1893–1909) after the formation of Marthoma church.The small state of Kerala is on the South Western coast of India. In the 1st century Thomas the Apostle arrived there to preach the gospel to the Jewish community. Some local residents became followers of Jesus of Nazareth; they were known as Nasrani people and their church as Malankara Church.