Pakalomattam_family
Pakalomattam family
Ancient Indian ecclesiastical family
The Pakalomattam family is an ancient Marthoma Nasrani (Syrian Orthodox Christian) family in Kerala, India. According to the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the family "solely supplied bishops and archdeacons to the Church [in India] till the beginning of the nineteenth century."[1] The position of Archdeacon of All India (sometimes given as Arkkadiyakon of all India), who oversaw the whole Christian church in India, was with very few exceptions filled by a member of the Pakalomattan family for generations.[2]