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A:The antiquity of Christian communities in India, along with the origins of Christian institutions, is not easy to identify, trace or understand. Local traditions are that the Apostle Thomas came by sea from Arabia and landed on the Malabar coast. Alternatively, they have shown that he came overland, down from the north. Whatever the historicity of such indigenous traditions, there can be no question as to their great antiquity or to their great appeal in popular imagination.

In 345, not long after the great persecutions of Christians within the Persian Empire had begun, a community of Syrian Christians landed on the Malabar coast under the leadership of an Armenian merchant banker named Thomas of Kana. It is not possible to say whether this coincidence of name led to the gradual belief that it was the disciple Thomas who brought Christianity to India, but in any case Christianity had probably already arrived in India by the year 345. Hints of early Christian presence in India are found in writings which date only a century or two later than the apostolic era.

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