Malankara Metropolitan was a title created by Colonel Macaulay the British Resident of the Travancore state, in 1808 for the purpose of paying the interest of a trust fund known as Vattipanam. In the first receipt issued on December 1, 1808, by the British resident it is written, ‘’… agreed to pay in Travancore, as long as the Ancient Church lasts, to the Metropolitan or Metran, or any other regularly constituted prelate annually the interest of the above amount at 8 percent … ‘’ The first Metropolitan to receive the interest was Mar Thoma VIII.(1809-1816). In 1808 there were two Metropolitnas, Mar Thoma IX and Mar Thoma X, So the government of Travancore had to select a regularly constituted Metropolitan for the purpose of paying this interest. The first one to receive this title was Mar