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The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, often shortened to Mar Thoma Church, and known also as the Reformed Syrian Church [20] [21] [9] and the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, is an autonomous Oriental Protestant Christian church based in Kerala, India.
In 1961, there was a split in the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church which resulted in the formation of St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India. [204] [205] Pentecostalism began to spread among Saint Thomas Christians from 1911, due to American missionary work. [42]
It is organised by Mar Thoma Evangelistic Association, the missionary wing of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church. The origin and growth of this annual get-together for one week at a stretch can be traced to the great revival movement which gathered momentum during the reformation period in the Syrian Churches of Kerala under the pioneering ...
It was founded in 1894 as a result of the movement initiated by Kannampallil Koshy Mathai Kathanar who was the Senior Vicar in the Cheppad Malankara Church (St. George Orthodox Church, Cheppad) by the approval of the then Metropolitan, Titus I Mar Thoma (1893–1910). It was built on the land donated by P. C. Thomas of the Pallithekkathil Family.
Thomas Mar Athanasius Mar Thoma XIV, or Thomas Thirumeni (7 October 1836 – 10 August 1893), was the Malankara Metropolitan of the Malankara Syrian Church faction of Malankara, from 1877 to 1893. The first son of prominent Syrian Church reformist Abraham Malpan (the "Martin Luther of the East"), he was born into the Palakunnathu family of ...
Mar Thoma Sleeva (also written as Mar Thoma Slīva) is a Syriac-language term which means Saint Thomas cross. [10] Vector illustration of Mar Thoma Sleeva or Saint Thomas Cross. Antonio Gouvea states in his 16th-century work Jornada that the old churches of Saint Thomas Christians were full of crosses of the type discovered at S. Thome ...
Abraham Malpan, pioneering cleric of the Malankara Syrian Church; Iype Thoma Kathanar, pioneer cleric, & father of rationalist Abraham Kovoor; Sadhu Kochoonju Upadesi, preacher, poet and composer; Philipose Mar Chrysostom, prelate and the emeritus Metropolitan of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church
Mar Thoma VI, also known as Mar Dionysius I, was the 6th Metropolitan of the Malankara Syrian Church, serving from 1765 until his demise on 7 April 1808. [1] His original name was Iype, and he was born as the only son of Mathew (Mathan) Tharakan, the elder brother of Mar Thoma V, [2] in the Pallippuram branch of the Pakalomattom Family(Andoor, Marangattupilly).