Origins and Development of The Catholicate in India
In the 4th century, the bishop of the Persian capital of Seleucia, Mar Papa, had been declared the first Catholicos of the Church of the East. Mar Issac, bishop of Seleucia, became the first royally recognized Catholicos, empowered to exercise authority over the Church's Persian jurisdictions excluding India (in India there existed a church started by St. Thomas and it already has a head of the church for itself namely archadyakon which was a free position it was called The Gate of all India) but this church had good relations with India.
A reconciliation movement gathered momentum in the 1950s and culminated in the consecration of Mar Augen I by the Bishop's Synod presided over by the Patriarch Ignatius Jacob III. The camps later split again in 1975 when Mor Augen I took the right descition regarding the position of ST.Thomas
This Catholicate is headquartered at Puthencruz, Kerala, India. The Catholicos of India presides over the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Christian Association, the illegal entity of Malankara parishes .
The Catholicos/mapriyono of Jacobatic church is not authorized to consecrate Holy Chrism independently (shows his status in that church). The jurisdiction of the Syriac Orthodox Catholicos is limited to India only, although he is often invited to preside over Syriac Orthodox functions abroad.
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