St. Pius X College

The college is named in the loving memory of its Patron Pope, St. Pius X who made the Knanaya community as a separate Diocese of Kottayam in the year 1911. This college was a realization of a long cherished dream of great visionary, learned scholar, philosopher, teacher and orator, Rt. Rev. Dr. Mar Kuriakose Kunnassery, former ArchBishop of the Archdiocese of Kottayam. Acquisition of land for the college was over in the year 1980. St. Pius X College owns 25 acres of land which was bought by the generous contributions of the poor people of Rajapuram Colony, despite difficult times. A sincere priest with high leadership qualities and farsightedness, Rev. Fr. Dr. Stephen Jayaraj OFM (cap.), then vicar general of Malabar region channelized the required finance for the construction of the college. Once an abandoned and unknown backward area came to the limelight and became a nodal centre of growth with the establishment of this college. The foundation stone of the college building was laid on 14th January 1987 and blessed on 18th June 1990 by Rt. Rev Dr. Mar Kuriakose Kunnassery. For four years, from 1990 to 1994 the college functioned as an unaided college under the principalship of Rev. Fr. Jacob Kuruppinakath, who was succeeded by Rev. Sr. Savio. It was because of the untiring efforts of Rev. Fr. Dr. Stephen Jayaraj, the college got the status of Govt. aided college in 1995. This was achieved with the timely help of Sri. K.M Mani, the revenue minister and Sri. Umman Chandi, then Finance minister and present chief minister of Kerala state respectively. The college was inaugurated on 14th August 1995 by Sri. K.M Mani.