"Let my people go"- REF:Syrian Orthodox Church
JPR and all:
Here is something interesting I ran into, probably more than you all
care to know but what the heck.<gg>
Syrian Orthodox Church.
Church History at a glance...
ÿ This Church enjoys the greatest prestige in the history of Christendom since it is the first Church which was established in Jerusalem out of the Apostles, Preachers and other converted Jews, and was grafted in Antioch by those who were converted from among the Arameans and other gentile elements. It can justifiably claim the wealthiest liturgical and musical heritage, besides a proud theological and missionary record. The Church and it's parishoners still use Syriac-Aramaic the language spoken by our Lord Jesus Christ. It suffered untold hardships and tragedies including massacres and repeated transfer of the See of the Patriarchate from one locality to another due to political and other developments until it settled in Damascus-Syria. Historians declare that the survival of this Church was nothing short of a miracle. The current Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, the Supreme Head of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church is His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas. The Church provides spiritual guidance to over four million parishoners throughout the World.
Syrian Orthodox Church in Kerala,India.
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Malabar Christians:
MALABAR CHRISTIANS
Malabar Christians
{mal'-uh-bahr}
The Malabar Christians are an ancient and numerous Christian community in southwestern India. They take their name from the Malabar Coast where, according to tradition, Christianity was first brought to India by Saint THOMAS the Apostle. Verifiable records, however, connect early Indian Christ ianity with the 5th-century missionary activity of the church in Persia, which embraced NESTORIANISM. For almost a millennium the Malabars survived, with a liturgy in the Syriac language, as an intermittently persecuted minor ity in India.
Great confusion resulted from the arrival of Portuguese missionaries--and Portuguese colonial rule--at the end of the 15th century. Some of the Malabar Christians were converted outright to Western Christianity; others, although preserving parts of their liturgy and some of their customs, recognized the supremacy of the pope. Force and coercion were widely used to achieve these results. When Portuguese rule ended in the 17th century, a majority of Malabar Christians affiliated themselves with the JACOBITE CHURCH. In the years following World War I, although remaining independent, they joined in communion with the other Monophysite churches (see MONOPHYSITISM). Important Latin and uniate groups remain in the jurisdiction of Rome. Another branch, the Mar-Thoma church, moved toward Protestantism and entered the Anglican Communion.
Knanaya Christians of Kerala.
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The KNANAYA people(Southists)form a distinct ethnic community among the Christians of India. Traditionally,they trace their origin to a Mesopotamian colony of seventy-two Jewish Christian families that immigrated to the India port-town of Kodungalloor in AD345,under the leadership of a merchant called Thomas Kinayi,accompanied by a Bishop,Uraha Mar Yausef,four priests and several deacons. This Community has its own exclusive eparchies in both Catholic(Kottayam) and Orthodox(Chingavanam) Churches in Kerala,India.
Jacobites:
Jacobite church
{jak'-uh-byt}
A body of Monophysite Christians, living primarily in Syria, Iraq, and India, the Jacobite church takes its name from Jacob (James) Baradai (d. 578), bishop of Edessa, who organized a separate church, opposed to the Orthodox episcopate of Eastern Christendom. Together with the Copts of Egypt, the Armenians, and the Ethiopians, the Jacobites reject the doctrine of the Council of Chalcedon (451; see CHALCEDON, COUNCIL OF) on the "two natures in one person" of Christ and prefer to define Christ's person as "one nature" (see MONOPHYSITISM). Modern historians generally consider that the ir doctrine, as elaborated in the 6th century by Severus of Antioch and Philoxenus of Mabbug, is not essentially different from that of Saint CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA, whom Orthodox, Roman Catholics, and Monophysites equally venerate as a Father of the Church. Their rejection of the Council of Chalcedon, however, still keeps the Jacobites separated from the main bodies of Christendom. The head of the Jacobite church bears the title of patriarch of Antioch and resides in Homs, Syria. His flock has been gradually reduced by the various stormy events in the Middle East. The MALABAR CHRISTIANS of India, also often designated as "Jacobites," have established their own patriarchate.
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