History of Mampally

The Mampally Holy spirit Church situated on the banks of the Arabian sea in the south west of Kerala state of India.
Even though historical records are not available many foretold stories there preserved to be proved. It is set to be in the middle of the 14th century, a taj prayer hall was here in the sea shore. At that time 7 families were here who followed Christianity. Before the advent of St. Francis Xavier, Christians were here. It is unknown how they slipped into Christianity or by whom it was carried out.
The famous historian `sho hammer’ pointed out that in AD 1545 St. Francis Xavier constructed church in Mampally which was dedicated to the Holy Spirit. The Latin Catholic in Kerala is not from a single race. It is a mixture of converted people from different societies and races. People they converted to Christianity to escape from caste system, the historical records are also authorizing these facts.
In the 18th century by the fall of the Portuguese in Kerala all of the Portuguese churches came under the dutch. In 1790 the Dutch government handed over all the authorities to the Varapuzha Diocese. But the people of Mampally and Anjengo rerouted to Syrian Diocese. But People were unfamiliar to the Syrian system of worship. They wanted to go back to Kochin Diocese. So they took the help of Veluthambi Dalava, the then chief of Travancore. Velu thambi dalava wrote a letter to the Bishop of Varappuzha. Because of the primacy of Mampally Church Varappuzha Bishop was reluctioned to give up. The bishop of Varappuzha called the attention of Lord Micelles the then president of Madrass. Later Mampally became a part of Trivandrum Arch Diocese.
The church of Mampally was a spiritual architecture of portugese culture. That old station at Mampally lost forever in 1992. The then Parish priest Rev. Fr. E. Wilfred put forward the idea of constructing a new church which was completed and inaugurated on 13th August 1995, thus the new church was build and blessed by most rev. Arch Bishop Dr.M Soosai pakiam.