Malankara body of the Syriac Orthodox Church in India
Not to be confused with the British political movement,
Jacobitism .
The Jacobite Syrian Christian Church ,[ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] or [ 12] the Syriac Orthodox Church in India ,[ 13] [ 14] is a Maphrianate of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch based in Kerala , India and part of the Oriental Orthodox Church . It recognizes the Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch and All the East as supreme head of the church. It functions autonomously within the church as an archdiocese, administered by the Malankara Metropolitan , Gregorios Joseph , and comes under the authority of the Catholicos of India , Baselios Thomas I . Following schism with the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church , it is currently the only church in Malankara that is under the administrative supervision of Syriac Orthodox Church . The church employs the West Syriac Rite Liturgy of Saint James .[ 15] [ 16] [ 17]
^ History of Jacobite Syrian Church
^ Malankara Church
^ "Syriac Orthodox Church" . Jacobite Syrian Christian Church. Retrieved 20 June 2022 .
^ "Jacobite Syrian Christian Church Constitution 2002 (in Malayalam) The official Constitution of the Church" (PDF) .
^ 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 .
^ 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) .
^ "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 .
^ "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 .