Arnold Legg

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Arnold Legg
Bishop of South Kerala & South Travancore diocese
Church Church of South India
Diocese South Kerala & South Travancore diocese
Installed1947

Arnold Legg [1] was a bishop in the Church of South India, the inaugural Bishop of South Kerala. [2]

Legg was a LMS missionary serving at South Travancore and Trivandrum. 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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