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The Province of St Joseph established on March 2, 1953 was formally inaugurated on April 23, 1953. The Provincial Curia which functioned temporarily at Mannanam was shifted to Kottayam in 1956 when the new building for the Curia was built there. In 1968 the curia was shifted to St Antony’s CMI Bhavan, Puthupally. The Calicut Region, entrusted to the Province was raised to Vice-Province in 1969 and a Province in 1978, named after St Thomas the Apostle. The Jagdalpur Exarchate, created in 1972, was entrusted to St Joseph’s Province. In 1979, the erstwhile St Joseph Province, Kottayam was bifurcated, and St Joseph’s Province, Trivandrum and Nirmal Vice-Province, Jagdalpur were erected. St Joseph's Province, Trivandrum had its headquarters at Mannanam and later shifted to Trivandrum in 1981. The Provincial House at Puthuppally continued to be the Provincial Curia of the St Joseph Province, Kottayam, till it was moved to Kottayam in 1990. The administrative block of the Provincial House was completed and blessed in 1996. The St Joseph Province, Kottayam spreads over the entire dioceses of Pala and Kanjirappally and parts of the Archdiocese of Changanassery.