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The Saint Thomas Christians, also called Syrian Christians of India, Marthoma Suriyani Nasrani, Malankara Nasrani, or Nasrani Mappila, are an ethno-religious community of Indian Christians in the state of Kerala (Malabar region), [ 8 ] who, for the most part, employ the Eastern and Western liturgical rites of Syriac Christianity. [ 9 ]
Syriac Christianity (Syriac: ܡܫܝܚܝܘܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ, Mšiḥoyuṯo Suryoyto or Mšiḥāyūṯā Suryāytā) is a branch of Eastern Christianity of which formative theological writings and traditional liturgies are expressed in the Classical Syriac language, a variation of the old Aramaic language. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] In a wider sense ...
The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church(MOSC)[8]also known as the Indian Orthodox Church(IOC)[9]or simply as the Malankara Church,[10]is an autocephalous[11][12][5]Oriental Orthodox churchheadquartered in Devalokam, near Kottayam, India. It serves India's Saint Thomas Christian(also known as Nasrani) population.
Christianity in India: From Beginnings to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198263777. Seleznyov, Nikolai N. (2010). "Nestorius of Constantinople: Condemnation, Suppression, Veneration: With special reference to the role of his name in East-Syriac Christianity". Journal of Eastern Christian Studies. 62 (3–4): 165–190.
Around 1665, many Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala, India, committed themselves in allegiance to the Syriac Orthodox Church, which established the Malankara Syrian Church. The Malankara Church consolidated under Mar Thoma I welcomed Gregorios Abdal Jaleel , who regularised the canonical ordination of Mar Thoma I as a native democratically ...
By the 3rd century, relations between Christian communities in India and neighbouring Persian Empire were well established, thus enabling Patriarchs of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, as heads of the ancient Chaldean Syrian Church of the East, to establish their jurisdiction over India. Since the East Syriac Rite was the principal liturgical rite of the ...
The Malankara Church, also known as Puthenkur, is the unified body of Saint Thomas Christians using the West Syriac Rite who claim origins from the missions of Thomas the Apostle.
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 Christianchurch based in Kerala, India. While continuing many of the Syriac high churchpractices, the church is Protestantin its ...