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The Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, [7][8][9][10] the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Church, [11] the Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church[12][13] or the Syriac Orthodox Church in India, [14][15] is an autonomous Maphrianate of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch based in Kerala, India and a part of the Oriental Orthodox Communion.
It is estimated that the church has 600,000 Syriac adherents, in addition to 2 million members of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church and their own ethnic diaspora in India. [ 111 ] [ 138 ] [ 139 ] Additionally, there is also a large Syriac community among Mayan converts in Guatemala and South America numbering up to 1.5 million. [ 140 ]
The West Syriac liturgical tradition was introduced after 1665, and the community associated with it is represented by the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church (a part of the Syriac Orthodox Church), the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (both of them belonging to the Oriental Orthodoxy), the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (an Eastern Catholic ...
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church [1] Jacobite Syrian Christian Church [2] Malabar Independent Syrian Church Saint Thomas Anglicans [3] [4] Mar Thoma Syrian Church Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India: Region: Kerala, India: Language: Suriyani Malayalam, Classical Syriac, Malayalam: Liturgy: Antiochian Rite ...
the faction supporting the Patriarch's administration became the Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church (known today as the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church). Baselios Paulose I (1912–1913), the first Catholicos, died after a short period of five months on 13 May 1913; the See remained vacant until 1925.
Christianity in Syria has among the oldest Christian communities on Earth, dating back to the first century AD, and has been described as a "cradle of Christianity". [1] With its roots in the traditions of St. Paul the Apostle and St. Peter the Apostle, Syria quickly became a major center of early Christianity and produced many significant theologians and church leaders.
The West Syriac Rite, also called the Syro-Antiochian Rite and the West Syrian Rite, [1] is an Eastern Christian liturgical rite that employs the Divine Liturgy of Saint James in the West Syriac dialect. It is practised in the Maronite Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Syriac Catholic Church and various Malankara Churches of India (see ...
Indians who follow the Oriental Orthodox faith belong to the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church. The two churches were united before 1912 and after 1958, but again separated in 1975. The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, also known as the Indian Orthodox Church, is an autocephalous church.