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- ↑ "Syriac Orthodox Church in India blessed with Three new Metropolitans". News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE. 2 January 2012.
- ↑ "Jacobite Syrian Cristian Church". www.jacobitesyrianchurch.org.
- ↑ "Logama Gambeera | vox dei music". voxdeimusic.in.