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[23] [24] The Syriac Orthodox Church comprises 26 archdioceses and 13 patriarchal vicariates. [25] Jacobite Syrian Christian Church is an autonomous body in India with the Catholicos of India as the head of the church. Roughly one million or two-thirds of the total adherents of the Syriac Orthodox Church are part of this sub-church. [26]
They followed the Syriac Orthodox faith, maintained their distinct identity and preserved the traditions of the Syriac Orthodox Church. With the approval and spiritual guidance of the late Archbishop Mor Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, the first Malankara Syriac Orthodox Parish in North America was formed in 1975 as Mar Gregorios Syriac Orthodox ...
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.
[33] [34] The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church wanted to retain its autocephaly, and appealed to Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch Ignatius Abdul Masih II. He enthroned Murimattathil Paulose Ivanios as Baselios Paulose I, Catholicos of the East , on the apostolic throne of St. Thomas at St. Mary's Church in Niranam on 15 September 1912.
Syriac Orthodox Christians in the Middle East, known simply as Assyrians or Syriacs (Suryoye), are an ethnic [94] subgroup who follow the West Syrian Rite Syriac Orthodox Church in the Middle East and the diaspora, numbering between 150,000 and 200,000 people in their indigenous area of habitation in Syria, Iraq, and Turkey according to ...
The church will celebrate its centennial anniversary on Oct. 7 and 8 since its 1923 consecration, but as one of the oldest Syriac Orthodox churches in the country, its history actually goes back ...
The Syro-Malabar Church is the third-largest particular church (sui juris) in the Catholic Church, after the Latin Church and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. [ 61 ] The Catholic Saint Thomas Christians ( Pazhayakūttukār ) came to be known as the Syro Malabar Catholics from 1932 onwards to differentiate them from the Syro-Malankara ...
The Malankara Orthodox Diocese of Southwest America, sometimes referred to as the Southwest Diocese or DS-WA is a diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. The diocesan headquarters are located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas , with a postal address of Beasley , [ 3 ] a suburban city in Texas 40 miles from downtown Houston .