Malankara body of the Syriac Orthodox Church in India
Not to be confused with the British political movement,
Jacobitism .
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Cochin Abbreviation JSC Classification Oriental Orthodox Church Orientation Early Christianity Eastern Christianity Syriac Christianity Scripture Peshitta Vishudhagrandham (Malayalam Translation)Theology Miaphysitism Polity Episcopal polity Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Catholicos Baselios Thomas I Malankara Metropolitan Gregorios Joseph Affiliation Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch Communion Oriental Orthodox Churches Region India and Nasarani Malayali Diaspora Language Malayalam , English, Hindi , Syriac , Tamil , Kannada Liturgy West Syriac Rite Divine Liturgy of Saint James Headquarters Patriarch Ignatius Zaka I Iwas Centre (Patriarchal Centre)Puthencruz Kochi India Founder Saint Thomas the Apostle Origin 52 AD by tradition[ 2] [ 3] Branched from Saint Thomas Christians Malankara Church Separations Malabar Independent Syrian Church (c. 1772), Church of South India (1836), Mar Thoma Syrian Church (1889), Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (1912,[ 4] 1975), and Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (1930)[ 5] Members 480,0000 in Kerala[ 6] Official News Portal J.S.C.
The Jacobite Syrian Christian Church ,[ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Church ,[ 11] the Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church [ 12] [ 13] or the Syriac Orthodox Church in India ,[ 14] [ 15] is a Maphrianate of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch based in Kerala , India and part of the Oriental Orthodox Church . It functions autonomously within the church as an archdiocese, administered by the Malankara Metropolitan , Gregorios Joseph , and under the spiritual authority of the Catholicos of India , Baselios Thomas I , and, the Patriarch of Antioch , Ignatius Aphrem II the supreme hierarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church.[ 11] According to tradition, it was founded by Saint Thomas the Apostle , and was under the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, as formalized by the Council of Nicaea .[ 16] It is currently the only church in Malankara that remains a part of the Syriac Orthodox Church . The church employs the West Syriac Rite Liturgy of Saint James .[ 17] [ 18] [ 19]
^ History of Jacobite Syrian Church
^ Malankara Church
^ Chaillot, Christine (2006). "The Ancient Oriental Churches". In Wainwright, Geoffrey ; Westerfield Tucker, Karen B. (eds.). The Oxford History of Christian Worship . Oxford : Oxford University Press . p. 132. ISBN 978-0-19-513886-3 .
^ Joseph, Thomas. "Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church" . Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition . Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute. Retrieved 1 September 2024 .
^ K.C. Zachariah, "Religious Denominations of Kerala" (Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India), Working Paper 468, April 2016, p. 29
^ "JSC News - The Official News Portal of the Holy Jacobite Syrian Christian Church" . Archived from the original on 7 October 2013.{{cite web }}
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^ "Pastoral message of H.B Thomas I, Maphrian of India, Jacobite Church Head in India" . Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2023 .
^ "Official Publication of Jacobite Syrian Christian Church" . Archived from the original on 18 December 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2023 .
^ "Jacobite Syrian Christian Church Constitution 2002 (in Malayalam) The official Constitution of the Church" (PDF) .
^ a b "Welcome to Jacobite Syrian Christian Church" . jacobitesyrianchurch.org . The Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, an Orthodox church in Malankara (Kerala, India) is an integral part of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church with the Patriarch of Antioch, His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II as its supreme head. The local head of the church in Malankara is the Catholicose of the east, His Beatitude Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas I, ordained by and accountable to the Patriarch of Antioch.
^ Joseph, Thomas. "Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church" . Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition .
^ "India – Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch" . syrianorthodoxchurch.org . Retrieved 16 March 2022 .
^ "Metropolitan's from the Syriac Orthodox Church of India Visits Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II" . 21 October 2016.
^ Alexander, George (2018). The Orthodox Dilemma (3rd rev. ed.). OCP Publications. p. 56. ISBN 9781387922284 .
^ "Within almost twenty years of the decision of the Council[of Nicaea], we find the Patriarch of Antioch taking ·action upon it. Thomas of Cana. who had much intercourse with the nations of the Western Coast, in pursuit of merchandize arrived at Cranganore in A. D. 341." Royal Court of Travancore 1877.
^ "Saint Thomas Christians- Chronological Events from First Century to Twenty First Century" . Nasranis .
^ Thomas, Abraham Vazhayil (1974). Christians in Secular India . Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. ISBN 9780838610213 .
^ Joseph, John (1984). Muslim-Christian Relations and Inter-Christian Rivalries in the Middle East: The Case of the Jacobites in an Age of Transition . SUNY Press. ISBN 9781438408064 .