Holy Family Church

The Church of the Holy Family was built in 1856 chiefly to look after the spiritual needs of railway employees consisting of Europeans and Anglo-Indians. Until 1967 this Church was visited by a priest from Agra to conduct services on Sundays and feast days. In the course of time the work of the Church developed and extended its services to the nearby villages and hundreds were baptized. Unfortunately these people became apostates. Fr. Pius, Fr. Peter Celestine, Fr. Clement and Fr. Francis Lobo worked in the parish up to 1970. On June 28, 1970 Fr. K. C. Thomas was appointed resident priest. On July 3, 1972 he opened Christ the King English medium school in a rented building. Later in September 1972, Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph from Madras arrived to lend a helping hand in the Parish. In 1978, Christ the King School was shifted from the rented building to the place purchased by the Archdiocese on the Agra-Kanpur Highway. The school was upgraded to a High School in 1985. A new plot of land was purchased in September 2007 to relocate the primary sections. On August 15, 2008, the construction of the first phase of Christ the King Primary School commenced. In July 2009, the K.G. sections, in July 2010 Classes I to III and the rest of Primary Section in 2012 were relocated in the new campus; also the school was raised to Senior Secondary level. The following are the parish priests: Fr. Thomas K. C. 1972 - 1985 Fr. Blaise Gonsalves 1985 - 1986 Fr. George Paul 1986 - 1987 Fr. Paul Thannickal 1987 - 1988 Fr. Jose Akkara 1988 - 1994 Fr. Antony C. J. 1994 - 1995 Fr. Simon Lopez 1995 - 1996 Fr. Paul Thannickal 1996 - 2001 Fr. George Paul 2001 - 2007 Fr. Mathew Kumblumoottil 2007 - 2013 Fr. Andrew Correia 2013 - 2019 Fr. Jipson Palatty 2019 - Address Holy Family Church C/o Christ the King School Gandhipuram, Tundla - 283 204 Firozabad (Dt.) E-mail holyfamilychurchtundla@gmail.com Patron Holy Family of Nazareth Annual Feast Day Feast of Holy Family Estd 1856 Catholics 160 Clergy Fr. Jipson Palatty (PP) Fr. Joseph Kr. Pasala (APP) Religious Houses Loretto Convent (FSJ) T. 229277 St. Francis Monastery-Aradhana (PCC) M. 6207221319 St. Francis Provincialate (FSJ) M. 9457481567 Institutions Masih Vidyapeeth (Regional Philosophate) Christ the King Primary School T. 7500051591 Christ the King Inter College T.9012999972 St. Dominic's Hospital T. 228292

Holy Family Church C/o Christ the King School Gandhipuram, Tundla - 283 204 Firozabad (Dt.)