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That All May Be One
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| Group | Malankara Syrian Catholic Church |
| Caption | That All May Be One |
| Region1 | India |
| Pop1 | 500,000 |
| Region2 | United States |
| Pop2 | 10,000 |
| Region3 | AE |
| Pop3 | 5,000 |
| Region4 | Canada |
| Pop4 | 2,000 |
| Region5 | Australia |
| Pop5 | 2,000 |
| Region6 | Germany |
| Pop6 | 5,000 |
| Region7 | UK |
| Pop7 | 2,000 |
| Region9 | Saudi Arabia |
| Pop9 | 5,000 |
| Region10 | Oman |
| Pop10 | 2,000 |
| Region11 | Qatar |
| Pop11 | 1,000 |
| Region12 | Kuwait |
| Pop12 | 2,000 |
| Region13 | Republic of Ireland |
| Pop13 | 1,000 |
| Langs | Vernacular:
Malayalam, Tamil, English, German
Liturgical:
Syriac, Malayalam, Tamil, English, Hindi |
| Founder | St. Thomas the Apostle (AD 52)
Archbishop Mar Ivanios (1930)
Current Head:
Baselios Cleemis |
| Era | Apostolic |
| Primate | Baselios Cleemis |
| Recognition | Eastern Catholic |
| Rels | Christianity |
| Scrips | Bible (based on the Syriac Peshitta) |
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The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (also known as Malankara Syrian Catholic Church, Malankara Syriac Catholic Church; ) is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See. It has a total membership of around 500,000.
The Church is one of the Saint Thomas Christian churches centered in Kerala, India, which trace their origin to the evangelism of Saint Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. It is one of two Saint Thomas Christian churches in the Catholic communion, the other being the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. Among the Eastern Catholic Churches, the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is a Major Archiepiscopal Church, headed by Major Archbishop Baselios Cleemis (Thottunkal), who was elected in 2007. In Malankara tradition, the head of church is addressed as Moran Mor Baselios Cleemis Catholica Bava.
The liturgy of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is of the Antiochene Rite, West Syrian in character. The liturgy today is celebrated in Malayalam, Syriac, English, Tamil, and Hindi.
The church was established in 1930 when it split from the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, an Oriental Orthodox (Monophysite) church, and subsequently entered into communion with Rome. The Malankara Church itself had emerged out of the split within the Saint Thomas Christian community of the 16th century; previously the entire community had comprised a province of the Church of the East, or the Nestorian Church, based in Persia. However, the collapse of that church and influence from the Portuguese, who tried to bring them under the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, led to a rift in the community. Eventually, the majority entered into communion with Rome as the Eastern Catholic Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, while the rest formed the Malankara Church and aligned with the Syrian Orthodox Church.
This latter group became gradually closer to the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, leading to a series of splits concerning the extent to which the Patriarch would be given authority; the faction giving the Patriarch full administrative powers became the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Church.Taking only five members of his church with him, Mar Ivanios had founded the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, on 20 September 1930.
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Syro-Malankara Catholic Church Video
| Major Archbishop Moran Mor Baselios Cleemis Catholicos : |
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| Hierarchs |
Diocese |
Cathedral / Location |
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| Pope Benedict XVI |
Bishop of Rome & Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church |
St. John Lateran Basilica /
Vatican City, Rome, Italy |
| Moran Mor Baselios Cleemis |
Major Archbishop-Catholicos of the Syro-Malankara Church |
St. Mary's Syro Malankara Catholic Cathedral /
Pattom, Trivandrum, Kerala, India |
| Aboon Thomas Mor Koorilos |
Metropolitan Archbishop of Tiruvalla |
St. John's Syro Malankara Catholic Cathedral /
Tiruvalla, Kerala, India |
| Aboon Joseph Mor Thomas |
Metropolitan of Bathery |
St. Thomas Syro Malankara Catholic Cathedral /
Sulthan Bathery, Kerala, India |
| Aboon Vincent Mor Paulose |
Metropolitan of Marthandom |
Christuraja Syro Malankara Catholic Catheddral /
Marthandam, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Aboon Abraham Mor Julios |
Metropolitan of Muvattupuzha |
St. Mary's Syro Malankara Catholic Cathedral /
Vazhappilly, Mudavoor, Muvattupuzha, Kerala, India |
| Aboon Joshua Mor Ignathios |
Metropolitan of Mavelikkara |
St.Mary's Syro Malankara Catholic Cathedral /
Punnamoodu, Mavelikkara, Kerala, India |
| Aboon Yoohanon Mor Chrysostom |
Metropolitan of Pathanamthitta |
St. Peter's Syro Malankara Catholic Cathedral /
Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India |
| Aboon Geevarghese Mor Divannasios |
Metropolitan of Puthur |
St. Joseph’s Syro Malankara Catholic Cathedral /
Puthur, Karnataka, India |
| Aboon Geevarghese Mor Timotheos |
Metropolitan Emeritus of Tiruvalla |
Emeritus of St. John's Syro Malankara Catholic Cathedral /
Tiruvalla, Kerala, India |
| Aboon Thomas Mor Eusebius |
Exarch of the United States |
St. John Chrysostom Syro Malankara Catholic Pro-Cathedral /
New Hyde Park, Long Island � New York, USA |
| Aboon Jacob Mor Barnabas |
Apostolic Visitor to North India |
Mar Ivanios Bhavan Syro Malankara Catholic Center /
New Delhi, India |
| Aboon Samuel Mor Irenios |
Auxiliary Bishop of Trivandrum |
St. Mary's Syro Malankara Catholic Cathedral /
Trivandrum, Kerala, India |
| Aboon Philipose Mor Stephanos |
Auxiliary Bishop of Tiruvalla |
St. John's Syro Malankara Catholic Cathedral /
Tiruvalla, Kerala, India |
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| Aboon Thomas Mor Anthonios |
Bishop of the Major Archiepiscopal Curia |
Catholicate Centre /
Trivandrum, Kerala, India |
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