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Jacobite Syrian Church | |
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Abbreviation | JSC |
Classification | Oriental Orthodox |
Orientation | Syriac Malankara |
Scripture | Peshitta Vishudhagrandham (Malayalam Translation) |
Theology | Oriental Orthodox Theology |
Polity | Episcopal polity |
Patriarch | Ignatius Aphrem II |
Catholicos | vacant |
Malankara Metropolitan | Gregorios Joseph |
Church | Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch[1] |
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[1] |
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. |
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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 an autonomous Maphrianate of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch based in Kerala, India and a part of the Oriental Orthodox Communion. It is administered by the Malankara Metropolitan, Gregorios Joseph, under the spiritual authority of the Catholicos of India, which has been vacant since the passing away of 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.[16] It is currently the only church in Malankara that maintains the hierarchy and succession of the Syriac Orthodox Church. The church employs the West Syriac Rite Liturgy of Saint James.[17][18][19]
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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.