The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC) also known as the Indian Orthodox Church (IOC) or simply as the Malankara Church,is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church headquartered in Devalokam,near Kottayam,India. The church serves India's Saint Thomas Christian population. According to tradition,these communities originated in the missions of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. It employs the Malankara Rite,an Indian form of the West Syriac liturgical rite.
Ignatius Zakka I Iwas was the 122nd reigning Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and,as such,Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church. Also known by his traditional episcopal name,Severios,he was enthroned as patriarch on 14 September 1980 in St. George's Patriarchal Cathedral in Damascus. He succeeded Ignatius Ya`qub III. As is traditional for the head of the church,Mor Severios adopted the name Ignatius.
Nedumbassery,is a suburb of the city of Kochi in Kerala,India. Situated around 25 kilometres (16 mi) northeast of the city centre,Nedumbassery is also an integral part of the Kochi Metropolitan Area.
Baselios Paulose II (born as Puthusseril Joseph Paulose was the first Maphrian of the erstwhile Patriarchal faction of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church later known as Jacobite Syrian Christian Church.
Baselios Thomas I is a Syriac Orthodox Catholicos of India (Maphrian) and head of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church,the Syriac Orthodox Church in India. He was enthroned on 26 July 2002 by Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas,Patriarch of Antioch and All the East in a ceremony held in Damascus,Syria.
Mor Severios Abraham is a Syriac Orthodox bishop. As of 2013,he is the Metropolitan of Angamali region of the Angamali Diocese and Abbott of Mor Gabriel Dayro (Monastery). He is the most senior metropolitan in the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church.
Mor Gregorios Joseph is a Syriac Orthodox archbishop and currently the Metropolitan trustee of Jacobite Syrian Christian Church.
The Jacobite Syrian Christian Church (JSCC),or the Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in India the Jacobite Syrian Church,and the Syriac Orthodox Church in India,is a catholicate based in Kerala,India,of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch and part of the Oriental Orthodox Church. It recognizes the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East as supreme head of the church. It functions autonomously within the church,administered by the Metropolitan Trustee,under the authority of the Maphrian of India,Baselios Thomas I. Following schism with the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church,is currently the only church in Malankara that is directly under a Syriac Christian Antiochian hierarchy,claiming continuity to the 1665 schism. The church employs the West Syriac Rite Liturgy of Saint James.
Mor Themotheos Thomas is the Metropolitan of Kottayam Diocese and Secretary to the Holy Episcopal Synod of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church. Mor Themotheos Thomas was ordained as the Metropolitan of the Outside Kerala Diocese on 3 January 1991 by Mor Baselios Paulose II Catholicos of the East .
The Catholicos of India,is an ecclesiastical office in the Syriac Orthodox Church. He is the Catholicos,spiritual leader and regional head of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church,an Indian archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church,and functions at an ecclesiastical rank second to the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch within the Church,and his name is commemorated in liturgy throughout the Syriac Orthodox Archdioceses in India. The position was renamed as 'Catholicos of India' in 2002,in accordance with its actual jurisdiction.
St.Paulose Mor Athanasios,popularly known as Aluvayile Valiya Thirumeni,was the Metropolitan of the Angamaly Diocese and malankara Metropolitan of the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church.
Samuel Mar Philexinose was the first bishop of the Malabar Diocese of the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church.
Mar Athanasius Memorial Higher Secondary School (MAMHSS) is a school situated in Puthencruz,Ernakulam district,Kerala. The school is affiliated with Kerala State Education Board,SCERT.
Sir Dr. Mor Athanasious Eliyas is a Syriac Orthodox bishop. As of 2012 he was the Patriarchal vicar of Singapore,President of Antiochean Faith Movement in India and Vicar General of the St. Athanasius Cathedral at the Puthencuriz.
Angamali Diocese is the largest of the 12 dioceses of Syrian Orthodox Church in Kerala. Angamali Diocese was formed in the historic synod of Mulanthuruthy in 1876 and has been the major center of Jacobites through the ages. Metropolitan of the Diocese is HB Baselios Thomas I Catholicose.
E. A. E St. Mary's Soonoro Syriac Orthodox Church,Meenangadi,is a Marian Pilgrim center of the Syriac Orthodox Church located at Meenangadi in Kerala,India. The church is under E.A.E Arch Diocese,the first missionary association of Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East,and is currently under the direct control of Ignatius Aphrem II,Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church. In 2006,the church was elevated to the status of "Marian Pilgrim Centre",and in 2018,it celebrated its diamond jubilee. It is the first church to adopt the 8 Day Lent in Malabar Region.
Martha Mariyam Cathedral or St. Mary's Church is a valiyapally of the Syriac Orthodox Church situated in Kothamangalam town in the Ernakulam district of Kerala,India.
Marthoman Cheriyapally is a Jacobite Syrian Christian Church located in Kothamangalam town of Ernakulam district,Kerala,India. The church is believed to have been established in 1455 by 18 families who separated from Marth Maryam Valiyapally. The church is famous for the feast of Mor Baselios Yeldo,a Syriac Orthodox saint who arrived in Kothamangalam. He is entombed in the altar room of this church.
Malankara Malpan Arch Corepiscopa Curien (Kurian) Kaniyamparambil was a priest in the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church and a scholar in Syriac language,who translated the Bible (വിശുദ്ധഗ്രന്ഥം) from ancient Peshitta text to Malayalam. This is the official bible used by Syriac Orthodox Church in India.
Yuhanon Meletius is the metropolitan bishop of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church's Thrissur Diocese in India. Following the death of Baselios Marthoma Paulose II in 2021,Meletius was one of the seven members of an administrative council that governed the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC).
