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The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, also known as the Malankara Syrian Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church in full communion with the worldwide Catholic Church possessing self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. It is one of the major archiepiscopal churches of the Catholic Church.
Malankara Church is as old as the Church in Antioch, equal in status, and both are independent. A meeting was convened by the Maharaja of Travancore, before the final verdict was given, Athanasius testified that, Malankara Church was never under any foreign rule and that he was unwilling to move away from the teachings or give the authority and ...
The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC) [7] also known as the Indian Orthodox Church (IOC) [8] or simply as the Malankara Church, [9] is an autocephalous [10] [11] [4] Oriental Orthodox church headquartered in Devalokam, near Kottayam, India. It serves India's Saint Thomas Christian (also known as Nasrani) population.
St. Peter's and St. Paul's Malankara Orthodox Church also known as Parumala Pally is a famous church in Kerala, India. This church is located in Parumala in Thiruvalla Taluk In Pathanamthitta district and is a pilgrimage center and mausoleum of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church .
The dispute in three of these parishes was moved to the court and its final verdict was made by the Supreme Court in 2017, in favour of the Malankara Orthodox Church. [ 3 ] The dispute remains unresolved, and police interventions to implement the judgement continue to meet intense protest and confrontation in churches currently administered by ...
Ranni Orthodox Convention is an annual convention of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. [286] The convention is now held in Ranni town at Mar Gregorios Catholicate Centre and began in 1967. Mallapally Orthodox Syrian Convention of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church is an annual convention in Mallapally, Pathanamthitta. [287]
According to these records, the earliest church at Kozhencherry was constructed in AD 1599, according to the Malayalam Era (M.E. 775). The location of the church, a small thatched building, was at Vennapra, a hilly area on the eastern part of the Mulayodil field, situated towards the east of the present St. Thomas Mar Thoma Church in Kozhencherry.
The church today is maintained by the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan, Baselios Marthoma Didymos I proclaimed the church as an international St. Thomas pilgrim center on 16 December 2007. [citation needed]