Malankara Church
Historic Indian Christian denomination / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Malankara Church, also known as Puthenkur ,[13] is the historic unified body of West Syriac Saint Thomas Christian denominations which claim ultimate origins from the missions of Thomas the Apostle. This community, under the leadership of Thoma I, opposed the Padroado Jesuits as well as the Propaganda Carmelites of the Latin Church, following the historical Coonan Cross Oath of 1653. The Malankara Church's divisions and branchings have resulted in present-day Churches that include the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, the Malabar Independent Syrian Church, the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, the Saint Thomas Anglicans of the Church of South India and the St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India.[citation needed]
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Malankara Church | |
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Type | Eastern Christian |
Classification | Oriental Orthodox |
Theology | Miaphysitism |
Polity | Episcopal |
Metropolitan Bishop | Malankara Metropolitan |
Sub-divisions | Syro-Malankara Catholic Church[1] Jacobite Syrian Christian Church [2] Malabar Independent Syrian Church Saint Thomas Anglicans[3][4] Mar Thoma Syrian Church Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India |
Region | Kerala, India |
Language | Suriyani Malayalam, Classical Syriac, Malayalam |
Liturgy | Antiochian Rite- Liturgy of Saint James |
Headquarters | Pazhaya Seminary |
Founder | Thomas the Apostle as per tradition. |
Origin | 52 AD (tradition) 1665[5][6][7][8] |
Separated from | Church of the East[9] |
Branched from | Saint Thomas Christians[lower-alpha 1] |
Merged into | Oriental Orthodox Communion |