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	Catholicate of the East
		Syrian Orthodox (Jacobite) Church of Antioch and all the East
		Church in Persia that continued to be under the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and all the East, got reorganized under St. Ya`qub Burdono and installed St. Ahudemmeh as 'The Great Metropolitan of the East', but he too found it difficult to discharge his ecclesiastical duties smoothly.
		Present headquarters of this ancient Catholicate (Maphrianate) of the Syrian Orthodox Church is at Puthencuriz, Cochin, with Catholicos Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas I as the Chief of the Church in India.
	www.syrianchurch.org /MorBaseliosPauloseII/Catholicate.htm (3386 words)

	Eastern Rite Catholic Churches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Eastern Catholic Churches are in full communion of faith and of acceptance of authority with the see of Rome, but retain their distinctive liturgical rites, laws and customs, and traditional devotions.
		Now they are relatively few in numbers and are divided into three Churches, of which the Chaldaean Church, which is in communion with Rome, is the most numerous, while the others have recently split between the Assyrian Church of the East and the Ancient Church of the East.
		Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Križevci (an eparchy and an apostolic exarchate): Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_Catholic (2702 words)

	Saint Thomas Christians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thus, the East Syriac Church was South Indian in culture, Christian in religion, and Judeo-Syro-Oriental in worship.
		The move against the Syrian Church was followed by the Roman Church establishing a Roman Catholic diocese in Goa in 1534.
		Churches : Antiochian Orthodox Church · Assyrian Church of the East · Chaldean Catholic Church · Maronite Catholic Church · Melkite Greek Catholic Church · Syriac Catholic Church · Syriac Orthodox Church
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Thomas_Christians (1899 words)

	Christology
		the Syrian Church of Antioch, the Latin Church of Rome, the Coptic Church of Alexandria and the Byzantine Church of Constantinople.
		They split from the Syrian church of Antioch and established themselves a center of leadership in Madaen, Iraq, and later on, to Baghdad in 762 A.D. Until recently, their church was known as "the Syrian church of the East", or the "Syrian Nestorian Church", which in the 2Oth century changed to "the Assyrian church".
		The Patriarch convened a Universal Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church in 1975 and excommunicated the Catholicose Augen I. Consequently the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church elected Mor Philexinos Paulose as the new Catholicose-designate and in 1975 and he was ordained as Catholicose Mor Baselios Paulose II for the Indian Church for the Bava kakshi.
	www.gsbkerala.com /christ/christian.htm (13939 words)

	Malankara Orthodox Church - Before the Portuguese arrival
		With regard to the church status of the Indian St.Thomas Christians before the Portuguese’ arrivals, it is admitted unanimously by all the classical historians that it was in close connection with the East Syrian Christianity.
		The Indian church was not a daughter church of the East Syrian Church.
		The Indian church claimed St.Thomas as their founder and the East Syrians had a special relationship with St.Thomas as it was he who sent Addai to Edessa, and Aggai and Mari who evangelized Persia were the disciples of Addai.
	malankaraorthodoxchurch.in /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=222 (2800 words)

	Keralachurch.com
		Thus, the East Syrian Church was Hindu in culture, Christian in religion and Syro-Oriental in worship.
		This, indeed, was the Golden Age of the East Syrian Church.
		The move against the Syrian Church was followed by Western Church establishing a European diocese in Goa in 1534.
	www.keralachurch.com /main_left_right.php?cmd=keralachristianity (874 words)

	The Church of the East
		It is possible that the seeds of the church in the East were sown as early as the day of Pentecost, since "Parthians, Medes and Elamites [and] residents of Mesopotamia" were amongst those who witnessed the descent of the Holy Spirit on the believers and heard the subsequent sermon of Peter (Acts 2:9).
		The first evidence of this Syrian monasticism was the B'nai Q'yama and the B'nat Q'yama (the Sons and Daughters of the Covenant), an ascetic group which began in the third century and gained ascendancy in the church during the fourth century.
		The latter was responsible for the presence of a church in the royal camp of the Il-khans.
	www.oxuscom.com /ch-of-east.htm (9857 words)

	Indian Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Indian Orthodox Church (also known as Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Orthodox Syrian Church of the East), is a prominent member of the Oriental Orthodox Churches family.
		The present head of the Indian Orthodox church is H.H. Baselius Mar Thoma Didymos I. The official title of the head of the Church is "the Catholicos of the East seated on the throne of St Thomas and the Malankara Metropolitan".
		The Malankara Syrian Association is the parliament of the Church which is a body of bishops and elected laity and clergy representatives from all the parishes.
	www.niranamchurch.com /IndianOrthodoxChurch.asp (1788 words)

	The Syro-Malabar Church
		Their efforts sowed seeds of disunity and division in the Indian Church which led to further divisions and disunity and as a result the once united Indian Church, the Church that was in full communion with the See of Peter ended up in various denominations.
		Syrian Christians were friendly to Portuguese missionaries at first; but later, due to certain differences mainly in the liturgy, the relations between them became more and more strained.
		Though as entire Churches with their hierarchies communion was not restored by these Eastern Churches, at various points of history portions of them did come back to communion with the Roman Church and its bishop while the major part with their hierarchies remained outside communion.
	www.smcim.org /article2.htm (5247 words)

	History of the Church
		Malankara Orthodox Church is an ancient Church of India and it traces its origin to as far back as A. 52, when St. Thomas one of the Disciples of Jesus Christ came to India and established Christianity in the South Western parts of the sub-continent.
		Christian writers and representatives of the Churches at least from the 4th century refer to the evangelistic apostle Thomas in India and the Indian Christians ascribe the origin of their Church to this event in the first century.
		The Catholicate of the East was thus established in Malankara, with the cooperation of the canonical Patriarch Abdul Messiah, who was senior to Mar Abdulla.
	www.icon.org.in /church_history.icon (1639 words)

	His Beatitude Catholicos Paulose II was born on June 12
		{1} Catholicate of the Syriac Orthodox (Jacobite) Church of Antioch and all the East
		Present headquarters of this ancient Maphrianate/Catholicate of the Syrian Orthodox Church is at Puthencuriz, Cochin, with Catholicos Mor Baselios Thomas I as the Chief of the Church in India.
		Catholicate (Patriarchate) of the Chaldean Church of the East
	catholicose.org /PauloseII/Catholicate1.htm (2796 words)

	Malankara Orthodox Church - Before 1653
		From a letter of 5 East Syrian bishops, written to their Patriarch in Babylon (in 1504), it is known that there were in Malabar about thirty thousand families of St.Thomas Christians their co-religionists; they have begun to build new churches, and that they were prosperous in every respect and living in peace and security.
		The church of St.Thomas Christians founded by St.Thomas was connected with the Church of East Syria till the 16th century.
		All the 16th century evidences are unanimous that the church identity of the Thomas Christians was with the East Syrian Church.
	malankaraorthodoxchurch.in /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=221 (4884 words)

	Eastern Rite Catholic Churches Information
		The Eastern Catholic Churches are in full communion of faith and of acceptance of authority with the see of Rome, but retain their distinctive liturgical rites, laws and customs, and traditional devotions.
		Now they are relatively few in numbers and are divided into three Churches, of which the Chaldaean Church, which is in communion with Rome, is the most numerous, while the others have recently split between the Assyrian Church of the East and the Ancient Church of the East.
		Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Križevci (an eparchy and an apostolic exarchate): Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Eastern_Rite_Catholic_Churches (2670 words)

	Syrian Orthodox Church
		The Syrian Orthodox Church (see article on the term 'Orthodox') uses the Antiochene liturgy, and performs it in Syriac, which is a language close to Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke.
		According to their own traditions, their church was established by the Apostle Peter already in 37 CE (this is recorded in the Acts 11:26).
		The Antiochene church was central in formulating early Christian doctrines, through its active role in the first 3 synods (between 325 and 431).
	lexicorient.com /e.o/syr_orth.htm (440 words)

	Zinda 14 May 2005
		The openness of the Thomas Christians to the East Syrian Church and other churches was the result of their awareness of the concept of the communion of churches.
		Churches or places, which were not centers of Christian knowledge, did not develop their own liturgies, but received them from centers which were near, or dear to them.
		Another important conclusion is that the Church in India is not the result of the Mission of the Church of the East to India like the Mission of Alopen to China in 635 AD etc. The Indian Church is of apostolic origin.
	www.zindamagazine.com /html/archives/2005/5.14.05/index_sat.php (9179 words)

	\|\| Indian Christianity \|\|
		The Catholic Church, with Pope as Supreme Pontiff is a communion of 22 individual (sui juris) Churches.
		For some unknown reasons at least from the 8th century until the end of the 16th century the Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church were sent from the East Syrian Church, appointed by the Patriarch of the East Syrian Church.
		According to the canons of the Code of Canons of the Oriental Churches the major archbishop who is also the bishop of a diocese must have two separate offices, one for his diocese and another for the entire Church over which he presides.
	indianchristianity.org /syromalabar.html (8227 words)

	Malankara Orthodox Syriac Church Indian Orthodox Church Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
		The Indian Church came in contact with the East Syrian Church possibly from the 4th century.
		The Catholicos with his seat at Seleucia -Ctesiphon began to be called also Patriarch and in 486 A. the Church officially accepted a resolution in its Synod to recognise Nestorius as a Saint and Church Father.
		In 1599 by the Synod of Diamper, the assembly of representatives from churches was forced to give up the Indian Church's connection with the Patriarch of the Persian Church in favour of the Pope of Rome.
	www.orthodoxsyrianchurch.com /html/history/moc1.htm (334 words)

	The Syro-Malabar Church
		The Syro-Malabar Church was known as the Church of the St.Thomas Christians until the 18th century because it was founded by St Thomas, one of the apostles of Jesus Christ.
		For some unknown reasons at least from the 8th century until the end of the 16th century the Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church were sent from the East Syrian Church, appointed by the Patriarch of the East Syrian Church.
		Because of the Portuguese colonisation of parts of India in the early 16th century and of the consequent ecclesiastical arrangements, from 1600 onwards European Bishops from the Latin Church were appointed by the Pope to govern the St.Thomas Christians.
	www.smcim.org /history.htm (2367 words)

	EASTERN CHRISTIANITY ON THE EVE OF ISLAM
		From this date on, one can accurately designate the East Syrian Church as "Nestorian." However, the term "Nestorian" was applied to it only at a later date (19th Century), by Roman Catholics, to convey the stigma of differences in contradistinction to those who joined the Catholic Church as Uniats and received the name Chaldeans.
		Besides the Jacobite Church of Syria, the Armenian Church and the Coptic-Ethiopic Church are independent descendants of the Monophysite rite.
		With all their interest in Greek learning the two estranged sister Syrian Churches of the East and the West arose and developed largely as a reaction of the Syrian society against the Hellenising influences of Byzantium and Rome.
	www.ewtn.com /library/chistory/eveislam.htm (1410 words)

	Timothy I of Baghdad, catholicos of the East Syrian Church, 780-823: still a valuable model. - International Bulletin ...
		Timothy I of Baghdad, catholicos of the East Syrian Church, 780-823: still a valuable model.
		Timothy I of Baghdad often remains an unknown figure in church history, yet during his time the East Syrian (Nestorian) Church was the most widely spread in the world, spanning from Cyprus to China.
		In every country it reached, the East Syrian Church pursued its missionary task as a minority religion without governmental establishment.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-148479942.html (828 words)

	East of the Euphrates: Early Christianity in Asia
		For several of the early Syrian writers, the visible church on earth is the foreshadowing of the church in heaven.
		Within the visible church each member is called a ‘temple of the spirit’ and those who follow the way of self-consecration establish in themselves a ‘hidden church’ or church of the heart, which stands in a special, almost guaranteed relationship with the church in heaven.
		The central aspect of the main line east Syrian monasticism is not the fleeing from the world or despising the human body, but the exercise of self-discipline by the use of the human will and acquisition of wisdom to be used for the salvation of people.
	www.religion-online.org /showchapter.asp?title=1553&C=1361 (8216 words)

	Nestorian Church. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The theology of the church is not precise, but there are traits of ancient Nestorianism, which holds that there were two separate persons in Christ—one divine, the other human.
		The head of the church, called the patriarch of the East, holds a hereditary office, from uncle to nephew.
		They have rite and practices in common with the Nestorians, but have had a separate church organization since the 16th cent.; the patriarch of Babylon heads the church.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ne/NestorCh.html (460 words)

	History
		The Syro-Malabar Church was known as the Church of the St.Thomas Christians until the 18th century because it was founded by St Thomas, one of the apostles of Jesus Christ.
		Though they remain members of the Syro-Malabar Church, they had little chance of following their own traditions in their life of faith because only the Latin Church was present in many of the lands they migrated as U.S.A and Canada.
		As a result of the teaching of the second Vatican council there was an awakening both in the Bishops of this Church as well as the faithful scattered all over the world about their identity and their duty to preserve and promote their tradition.
	www.thesyromalabarchurch.org /history.htm (2379 words)

	Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
		Christian writers and representatives of the Churches at least from the 4th century refer to the evangelistic labours of the Apostle Thomas in India and the Indian Christians ascribe the origin of their Church to this event in the first century.
		A small body of the Syrian Christians opted to join with the missionaries and be absorbed in the Anglican Church.
		The Catholicate of the East was thus established in Malankara with the co-operation of the Canonical Patriarch Mar Abdul Messiah who was senior to Mar Abdullah.
	www.malankaraorthodoxchurch.org /malankara.htm (1897 words)

	CASSIS: Book Review - Emma Loosley. The Architecture and Literature of the Bema in Fourth- to Sixth- Century Syrian ...
		The evolution of church architecture in Syria from the third century house church at Dura Europos to the massive structures of the fourth and fifth centuries, including those with bemata, is not clearly presented here.
		She is further able to identify these churches as a unique corpus by distinguishing these bemata from the mosaic bemata found further to the west, (pp.
		Again, she is quite rightly cautious of using the East Syrian sources to assess the West Syrian archaeological material.
	syrcom.cua.edu /Hugoye/Vol8No2/HV8N2PRCassis.html (1862 words)

	Syrian Catholic Church
		Semi-autonomous Christian church, which is affiliated to the Roman Catholic Church through the Eastern Rite.
		By this, the Syrian branch is allowed to retain its customs and rites, even when these differ from the traditions of the Roman church.
		The official centre of their church is Antakya, Turkey, but the Patriarch has not been there for centuries, when he moved between several cities in Syria and Lebanon.
	i-cias.com /e.o/syr_cath.htm (345 words)

	Church History
		A connection to the East Syrian Church (Chaldean) was established after the arrival of another Thomas and several families from Cana (Knai Thomman) in the 4th century.
		This infused new blood to the sagging old church established by St.Thomas and the church began to be ruled by East Syrian (Chaldean) bishops.
		The Syrian Christians, popularly known as the Surais, in and around Thrissur who owe allegiance to the Syrian Nestorian patriarch are the followers of the schism Melus created.
	members.aol.com /smalabar/churhist.htm (931 words)

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