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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[a] |
| Merged into | Oriental Orthodox Communion |
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The Malankara Church, also known as Puthenkur,[13] is the unified body of Saint Thomas Christians using the West Syriac Rite who claim 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 following the Coonan Cross Oath of 1653, which was taken to resist Western Catholic influences.
The Malankara Church eventually came under the influence of the Syriac Orthodox Church but later split successively, leading to the creation of churches across various denominations and traditions. The Malankara divisions and branchings have resulted in the present-day Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, Malabar Independent Syrian Church, Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, the Saint Thomas Anglicans of the Church of South India and the St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India.[citation needed]
- ^ Koonammakkal, Thomas (2013). Peter Bruns; Heinz Otto Luthe (eds.). "Syro-Malabar History and Traditions". Orientalia Christiana: Festschrift für Hubert Kaufhold zum 70. Geburtstag; pp. 259-276. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag: 275–276. ISBN 9783447068857.
- ^ Thomas Joseph (2011). Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church.
- ^ Neill (2002), pp. 241–243, 246–251.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ Frykenberg (2008), p. 361.
- ^ Fernando & Gispert-Sauch (2004), p. 79.
- ^ Chaput (1999), pp. 7–8.
- ^ Encyclopaedia of sects & religious doctrines, Volume 4 By Charles George Herbermann page 1180–1181.
- ^ Fernando & Gispert-Sauch (2004), p. 79. "The community of the St Thomas Christians was now divided into two: one group known as the "Roman Catholic Syrians/RCSC" remained in the new communion with the Western Church and in obedience to the Pope whose authority they recognized in the archbishop of Goa. The 'Malankara Nazranies' stayed with Native head Mar Thoma I and eventually started relation with the West Syrian Church of Antioch."
- ^ Frykenberg (2008), p. 361. "His followers kept the ancient name ie 'Malankara Nazranies', as distinct from the 'Roman Catholic Syrians', the name by which the Catholic party became known."
- ^ Hans J. Hillerbrand (2004). Encyclopedia of Protestantism. Vol. 2. Routledge. p. 811. ISBN 9781135960285.
those who rejected the Latin rite were known as the New Party, which later became the Jacobite Church
- ^ MacKenzie (1901), p. 28.
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