St. Alphonsa Syro-Malabar Catholic Church

www.stalphonsacatholicchurch.org

Blessed Alphonsa Catholic Mission was started with the establishment of 'St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago in Georgia Corporation' on 11/09/2002 in Georgia as a non-profit organization. The purpose of the Corporation is to establish a catholic mission and church to preserve the spiritual and religious needs of the Syro-Malabar community in Georgia. Thirteen years ago a handful of people belonging to this rite came together under the spiritual leadership of Fr. Joseph Mullakkara MSFS to have a mass once a month in their own rite and language. As years passed the community kept growing and today it has 250 families registered in the mission. Now the community is in dire need of having a facility sufficient to contain six to seven hundred people. In 2003 six acres of land with a small house in Loganville was acquired by the Mission. On May, 21st the ground breaking ceremony was conducted in this property for the new church facility. Rev. Fr. Mullakara MSFS; Rev. Fr. Kuzhuppil, and Rev Fr Kurian Thomas Karickal served in this parish in the past years. Now Rev Fr Abraham (Johny) Puthiaparampil MSFS is the vicar