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 | | Jacobite Church[jak´ubIt´´] Pronunciation Key, 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. |
 | | These "Syrian Catholics" number about as many as the Jacobites; their head, another patriarch of Antioch, lives at Beirut. |
 | | These "Malankarese Catholics" are ecclesiastically separate from both the Syrian Catholics, whose rite they share, and from the "Syro-Malabar Catholics" (Chaldaean rite), who represent the Malabar Christians who did not leave the Roman communion when the Malabar Jacobites did. |
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