https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Habel_of_KaipettaHabel of Kaipetta - Revision history2026-09-07T01:12:55ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.6https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Habel_of_Kaipetta&diff=206575&oldid=prev>NickGeorge1993 at 21:03, 28 June 20202020-06-28T21:03:49Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{more citations needed|date=May 2018}}<br />
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}<br />
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}}<br />
{{Orphan|date=June 2016}}<br />
<br />
{{Infobox saint<br />
| venerated_in = [[Anglican Church of India]]<br />
| name = Habel of Kaipetta<br />
| image = <br />
| imagesize = <br />
| caption = <br />
| birth_date=5 May 1816<br />
| birth_place=Kaipetta Village, [[India]]<br />
{{infobox person|child=yes| baptised =6 September 1854}}<br />
| death_date=18 August 1899<br />
| death_place=[[India]]<br />
<br />
| titles = Saint Habel of Kaipetta<br />
| beatified_date = <br />
| beatified_place = <br />
| beatified_by = <br />
| canonized_date = 6 September 2003<br />
| canonized_place = [[Tiruvalla]], India<br />
| canonized_by = Archbishop [[Stephen Vattappara]]<br />
| patronage = <br />
| feast_day = 6 September<br />
| major_shrine = St. Habel Church, [[Kallooppara]], India<br />
| suppressed_date = <br />
| issues = <br />
}}<br />
<br />
St. '''Habel of Kaipetta''' (5 May 1816 &ndash; 18 August 1899) was a convert from [[Hinduism]] to Christianity, the first convert from the [[Chera Dynasty]] of [[Kerala]].<br />
<br />
Habel was born "Deivathan", in Kaipatta Village, near [[Tiruvalla]]. He was baptized at the age of thirty-eight in Mallappally Anglican Church, and was christened "Habel".<ref>[https://anglicantemp.wordpress.com/st-habel/ "St. Habel", Anglican Church of India]</ref> He learned theology from Europeans and traveled far and wide establishing congregations and churches and spreading the Gospel of Christ to thousands of people who took Baptisms and joined the Church. People revered him as a Saint.<br />
<br />
Habel died at the age of 84 on 18 August 1899. Bishop [[Edward Noel Hodges]] attended his funeral. On 6 September 2003, Archbishop [[Stephen Vattappara]] of the [[Anglican Church of India]] declared him as a [[Saints in Anglicanism|Saint]]. A church in the Village of Kaipatta is named after him.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
<br />
{{Christianity in Kerala}}<br />
<br />
<br />
{{authority control}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:1899 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:1816 births]]<br />
[[Category:Anglican saints]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Christian saints]]<br />
[[Category:Converts to Anglicanism from Hinduism]]<br />
[[Category:People from Thiruvalla]]<br />
[[Category:19th-century Christian saints]]<br />
[[Category:Christian clergy from Kerala]]<br />
[[Category:19th-century Indian scholars]]<br />
<br />
<br />
{{anglicanism-stub}}</div>>NickGeorge1993