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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.
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.
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.
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.
A religious reform (from Latin re-: "back, again", and formare: "to form"; i.e. put together: "to restore, reconstruct, rebuild") aims at the reform of religious teachings. It is not to be confused with an organizational reform of a religious community, though mostly this is a consequence of a reform of religious teachings.
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.
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]
In 1652, the Dutch East India Company established a settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. Many settlers were members of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Netherlands, and in 1665, they received their first minister. Despite having their own consistory, the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk was under the control of the Dutch Reformed Church in Amsterdam.