Arnold Legg
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Arnold Legg was a bishop in the
Church of South India The Church of South India (CSI) is a united Protestant Church in India. It is the result of union of a number of mainline Protestant denominations in South India after independence. The Church of South India is the successor of a number of Pr ...
, the inaugural Bishop of South Kerala.CSI Christ Church Kollam
/ref> Legg was a LMS missionary serving at
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and
Trivandrum Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...
. He was consecrated our first bishop at St. George's Cathedral, Madras on 27 September 1947. In 1959, the diocese was split into South Kerala and Kanyakumari dioceses, with Legg continuing as bishop of South Kerala.


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