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- Title
Renewal in the Malankara Orthodox Church, India.
- Authors
Varghese, Baby
- Abstract
The Malanakra Orthodox Syrian Church, which belongs to the family of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, proudly claims to be founded by the Apostle St Thomas. Its history before the fifteenth century is very poorly documented. However, this ancient Christian community was in intermittent relationship with the East Syrian Patriarchate of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, which was discontinued with the arrival of the Portuguese, who forcefully converted it to Roman Catholicism. After a union of fifty-five years, the St Thomas Christians were able to contact the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, thanks to the arrival of the Dutch in Malabar and the expulsion of the Portuguese. The introduction of the West Syrian Liturgical rites was completed by the middle of the nineteenth century. The arrival of the Anglican Missionaries in Malabar in the beginning of the nineteenth century provided the Syrian Christians the opportunity for modern English education and thus to make significant contributions to the overall development of Kerala, one of the states of the Indian Republic.
- Subjects
KERALA (India); INDIA; ORIENTAL Orthodox churches; SYRIAN churches; CATHOLIC Church; PORTUGUESE people
- Publication
Studies in World Christianity, 2010, Vol 16, Issue 3, p226
- ISSN
1354-9901
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/swc.2010.0102