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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.
Oriental Protestant denominations include the Mar Thoma Syrian Church and the St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India. [34] Being a reformed church influenced by British Anglican missionaries in the 1800s, the Mar Thoma Church employs a reformed variant of the liturgical West Syriac Rite.
The Diocese of North America & Europe is a diocese of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church that includes all the parishes in the North American and European continents. Its headquarters is at Sinai Mar Thoma Centre, Merrick, New York.The present Diocesan bishop is Issac Mar Philoxenos Episcopa. As of 2020 there are 71 parishes and 7 ...
Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church (Syro-Antiochene Rite – Oriental Protestant, independent) St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India ( Syro-Antiochene Rite – Oriental Evangelical , independent) Apart from the above churches which claim Thomas as their founder, Nasranis can also be found in Protestant churches.
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 Mar Thoma Syrian Church in Malaysia is the Malaysian zone of the Diocese of Malaysia, Singapore & Australia in the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church. It currently consists of a total of 16 parishes with 2,500 members nationwide. [4] The current diocesan bishop is the Rt. Rev. Joseph Mar Barnabas Episcopa.
All the churches of the Anglican Communion are in full communion with the Mar Thoma Syrian Church, which is an Oriental Protestant denomination based in India. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] [ 31 ] In addition the Anglican Communion recognizes the possibility of full communion between some of its member provinces or churches and other churches, without having ...
The CSI is in full communion with the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. [ 54 ] [ 55 ] Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church (MTC): an Independent and Autonomous Oriental Protestant malankara [ spelling? ] church under the jurisdiction of Marthoma Metropolitan, seated on the Apostolic Throne of Saint Thomas the apostle.