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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.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/J/JacobiteC.asp   (539 words)

  
 ORIENTAL ORTHODOXY : Encyclopedia Entry
The separation resulted in part from the Oriental Orthodox churches' refusal to accept the Christological dogmas promulgated by the Council of Chalcedon, which held that Jesus has two natures — one divine and one human, although these were inseparable and only act as one hypostasis.
The Oriental Orthodox churches are therefore often called Monophysite churches, although they reject this label, which is associated with Eutychian Monophysitism, preferring the term "non-Chalcedonian" or "Miaphysite" churches.
The Assyrian Church of the East is sometimes, although incorrectly, considered an Oriental Orthodox Church.
www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Oriental_Orthodoxy   (685 words)

  
 Adherents.com
"Syrian Orthodox: A remnant of the Monophysite church of Syria.
Syrian Orthodox Church, sometimes called Jacobite, for the 6th-century bishop Jacob Baradaeus.; Ethiopian Orthodox Church, linked until 1959 with the Copts.; Syrian Orthodox Church of the Malabar (southern India), also known as the St.
The Malankara Church was brought to the U.S. in the late 1960s by immigrants from southern India.
www.adherents.com /Na/Na_622.html   (2642 words)

  
 Chaldeans or Catholic Assyrians
Some, mainly in the cities, belonged to the Eastern Orthodox Church, but others were members of those other churches which have their origins in the controversies about the nature of Christ: the Syrian Orthodox or Monophysites, and the Nestorians.” unquote.
In the case of the new Chaldean, Armenian and Syrian Catholic Churches the impact was to be seen with the arrival of Catholic missionaries and teachers.
The new church united with the Roman Catholic Church as it preserved its own private daily life….the followers of this church were called the Chaldean Assyrians, and Sulaqa returned to Beth Nahren hoping to unite all Assyrians under the Roman Catholic Church.” Translation from the Arabic provided by Fred Aprim.
www.nineveh.com /Chaldeans%20or%20Catholic%20Assyrians.html   (5840 words)

  
 St. George Horeb Jacobite Syrian Church, Chennithala
The third antiphon of Lauds of the Feast of the Circumcision sees in "the bush that was not burnt" (Exodus 3:2) a figure of Mary conceiving her Son without the loss of her virginity.
It is said that, as early as in the fifth century the empress Eudoxia built a church over the place where Mary was born, and where her parents lived in their old age.
The antiquity of this opinion may be inferred from the fact that under Constantine a church was erected in Sephoris to commemorate the residence of Joachim and Anna in that place.
www.chennithalahoreb.com /stmary.htm   (8797 words)

  
 Articles - Southern India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Thomas the Apostle is believed to have come to Kerala and established the church, from which came Saint Thomas Christians (also known as Nasranis, Syrian Christians, Roman Catholics with Syrian-rite which is a combination of Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and Syro-Malankara Catholic Church).
Knanaya community exists as part of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church.
The Church of South India is an autonomous Protestant church, formed in 1947 through the merger of several Protestant denominations.
www.zdiamond.net /articles/Southern_India   (4454 words)

  
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They are constituted of various churches including Syrian-rite christians in communion with the church of Rome, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.
They are also constituted by Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church and the Mar Thoma Church.
The Knanaya christian-Jewish community exists as part of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church.
www.indias.com /php/wiki-South_India   (5748 words)

  
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