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Malankara Church is as old as the Church in Antioch, equal in status, and both are independent. A meeting was convened by the Maharaja of Travancore, before the final verdict was given, Athanasius testified that, Malankara Church was never under any foreign rule and that he was unwilling to move away from the teachings or give the authority and ...
The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC) [7] also known as the Indian Orthodox Church (IOC) [8] or simply as the Malankara Church, [9] is an autocephalous [10] [11] [4] Oriental Orthodox church headquartered in Devalokam, near Kottayam, India. It serves India's Saint Thomas Christian (also known as Nasrani) population.
The Church is in the Oriental Orthodox family following the Orthodox faith of the three Ecumenical Councils of Nicaea, Constantinople and Ephesus.; The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church is a division of the Orthodox Syrian Church and the chief Primate of the Orthodox Syrian Church is the Patriarch of Antioch.
The Malankara Church consolidated under Archdeacon Thoma welcomed Gregorios Abdal Jaleel, who regularized the canonical ordination of Thoma as a bishop. The Malankara Church gradually adopted West Syriac liturgy and practices. As part of the Syriac Orthodox Church, the church uses the West Syriac liturgy and is part of the Oriental Orthodox ...
The Diocese of Asia Pacific was formed on 1 November 2024, and was declared by Baselios Marthoma Mathews III Catholicose of the East & Malankara Metropolitan through the Kalpana No.267/2024 dated 30–9–2024. [4]
Malankara may refer to: Malankara Church, a collection of Indian apostolic churches Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, an Oriental Orthodox denomination in India;
The Malankara Syrian Catholic Church was formed on 20 September 1930 as a result of the reunion movement under the leadership of Archbishop Geevarghese Ivanios, when it split from the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and entered into communion with the Catholic Church. The Malankara Church itself had emerged from the split within the Saint ...
The dispute in three of these parishes was moved to the court and its final verdict was made by the Supreme Court in 2017, in favour of the Malankara Orthodox Church. [ 3 ] The dispute remains unresolved, and police interventions to implement the judgement continue to meet intense protest and confrontation in churches currently administered by ...