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  2. Mathews Athanasius - Wikipedia

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    Mathews Mar Athanasius Mar Thoma XIII (25 April 1818 – 16 July 1877) was the Malankara Metropolitan of the Malankara Church from 1852 until 1865. [2] [3] As a reformer, he spent most of his reign attempting to reform and heal rifts within the church.

  3. Kerala reformation movement - Wikipedia

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    The revolutionary concept of a school along with every church (palliyum pallikoodavum) was also implemented by Chavara [8].He also initiated the practice of a mid-day meal scheme in schools [9].In contrast to northern India, the reformation in Kerala was driven by the lower castes.

  4. Eastern Protestant Christianity - Wikipedia

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    The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church has its origins in a reformation movement within the Malankara Church in South India, in the latter half of the 19th century.India was part of the British Empire at the time, while the Malankara Church is an Oriental Orthodox church, in communion with the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch.

  5. Mar Thoma Syrian Church - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Protestantism in India - Wikipedia

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    Many Protestant denominations are represented in India, the result of missionary activities throughout the country especially under British rule in India.The largest Protestant denomination in the country is the Church of South India, since 1947 a union of Presbyterian, Reformed, Congregational, Methodist, and Anglican congregations with approximately 4 million members as of 2014.

  7. Brahmo Samaj - Wikipedia

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    In matters of social reform the Brahmo Samaj attacked many dogmas and superstitions. It condemned the prevailing Hindu prejudice against sailing across sea and going abroad (Kala Pani). The Samaj condemned practice of Sati (burning of widows), discouraged child marriage and polygamy, and crusaded for widow remarriage.

  8. Evangelical Reformed Church of India - Wikipedia

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    The church has relationships with the United Reformed Churches in North America. [6] In addition, he is a member of the Reformed and Presbyterian Fellowship of India, [1] World Reformed Fellowship [3] and the International Conference of Reformed Churches (since 2022). [4] [5]

  9. Malankara Church - Wikipedia

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    Malabar Independent Syrian Church: an Autonomous and Autocephalous church under the jurisdiction of its own independent Metropolitan, also sharing a communion with the Church of England and its communion. St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India: an autonomous Eastern, Evangelical and Episcopal church, headed by a presiding bishop. [71] [72]