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Malankara Church

The Malankara Church, also known as Puthenkur ,[13] is the historic unified body of West Syriac Saint Thomas Christian denominations which claim ultimate origins from the missions of Thomas the Apostle. This community, under the leadership of Thoma I, opposed the Padroado Jesuits as well as the Propaganda Carmelites of the Latin Church, following the historical Coonan Cross Oath of 1653. The Malankara Church's divisions and branchings have resulted in present-day Churches that include the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, the Malabar Independent Syrian Church, the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, the Saint Thomas Anglicans of the Church of South India and the St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India.

This article is about the historic Indian church. For the rite employed, see Malankara Rite.


Malankara Church

Eastern Christian

Oriental Orthodox

Miaphysitism

Episcopal

Malankara Metropolitan

Syro-Malankara Catholic Church[1]
Jacobite Syrian Christian Church [2]
Malabar Independent Syrian Church
Saint Thomas Anglicans[3][4]
Mar Thoma Syrian Church
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India

Kerala, India

Suriyani Malayalam, Classical Syriac, Malayalam

Antiochian Rite- Liturgy of Saint James

Pazhaya Seminary

Thomas the Apostle as per tradition.

52 AD (tradition)
1665[5][6][7][8]

Church of the East[9]

Saint Thomas Christians[a]

Oriental Orthodox Communion

Thomas of Cana copper plates: Dated between 345 and 811 AD, Thomas of Cana (Knai Thoma), a merchant from Persian Mesopotamia, was granted a deed of socio-economic rights known today as the by the Chera Dynasty. Thoma's plates were recorded and translated in the 16th and 17th century by Portuguese officials. The plates are later noted to have disappeared while in the possession of the Portuguese and remain lost.

Thomas of Cana copper plates

Tharissa palli Deed I: In 849 AD, Perumal Sthanu Ravi Gupta (844–885) gave a deed to Isodatta Virai for Tharissa Palli (church) at Curakkeni Kollam. According to historians, this is the first deed in Kerala that gives the exact date.

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Tharissa palli Deed II: Continuation of the above, given after 849 AD.

Iravi Corttan Deed: In 1225 AD, Sri Vira Raghava Chakravarti gave a deed to Iravi Corttan (Eravi Karthan) of Mahadevarpattanam in 774. Two families are witness to this deed showing that Brahmins were in Kerala by the 8th century.

Brahmin

Kottayam Cheriapally, 1835 pencil drawing

Kottayam Cheriapally, 1835 pencil drawing

Baptismal font used in the Malankara Churches

Baptismal font used in the Malankara Churches

Malankara Syrian Church Sunday School Text Book

Malankara Syrian Church Sunday School Text Book

Pazhaya Seminary

Orthodox Theological Seminary, Kottayam

Malankara Metropolitan

List of Malankara Metropolitans

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