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20 September 1930.
At Kollam, Mar Ivanios, Mar Theophilos, a priest, a deacon and a layman were received into the Catholic Church. Five people. Within a generation there were hundreds of thousands, drawn largely from the Malankara Orthodox and Jacobite communities, and Pius XI erected a hierarchy for them in 1932. Whether the growth was conversion or attrition is still argued in Kerala.
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