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Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church is commonly called the Mar Thoma Church. In official and legal records the church is referred to as Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar or as Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church. [24] Malabar is a term used to denote the Kerala coast in earlier days.
The Malabar Independent Syrian Church (MISC), also known as the Thozhiyur Church, is a Christian church centred in Kerala, India.It is one of the churches of the Saint Thomas Christian community, which traces its origins to the evangelical activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century.
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 ]
Today both Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and Malankara Jacobite Syrian Church claiming the Malankara Metropolitan title. In 2023, the current Catholicos of the East & Malankara Metropolitan (the Supreme Head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India) is Baselios Marthoma Mathews III. He is the 92nd Primate on the Apostolic Throne 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 ...
However the Supreme Head of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church uses the title of Mar Thoma Metropolitan upholding the autonomous character of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church. The current Mar Thoma Metropolitan of The Holy Apostolic Throne of St Thomas is Dr Theodosius Mar Thoma. This is the list of original Malankara Metropolitans ...
The Syro-Malabar Church shares the same liturgy with the Chaldean Catholic Church based in Iraq and the independent Assyrian Church of the East based in Iraq, including its archdiocese the Chaldean Syrian Church of India. The Syro-Malabar Church is the third-largest particular church (sui juris) in the Catholic Church, after the Latin Church ...
Placid Podipara – Syriacist, Syro-Malabar Theologian and Church historian [33] V. C. Samuel – Syrian Orthodox Theologian and Church Historian [34] [35] Sebastian Kappen – liberation theologian; Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly – Venerable and the founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Destitute.