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| | Jacobite Church - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | JACOBITE CHURCH [Jacobite Church], Christian church of Syria, Iraq, and India, recognizing the Syrian Orthodox patriarch of Antioch as its spiritual head, regarded by Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox as heretical. |
 | | It is thus analogous in position to the Coptic Church, the Monophysite church of Egypt. |
 | | In Malabar, India, there is a Christian sect of "Malabar Jacobites" ; this group came into existence in the 17th cent., when the bulk of the Malabar Christians left the Roman communion and established relations with the Jacobite patriarch. |
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