Church in India
The Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, one of the various Saint Thomas Christian churches in India, is an integral part of the Syriac Orthodox Church, with the Patriarch of Antioch as its supreme head. The local head of the church in Malankara(India) is the Catholicos of India also called Catholicos of the East, currently Baselios Thomas I, ordained by the Patriarch in 2002 and accountable to the Patriarch of Antioch. The head quarters of the church in India is at Puthencruz near Ernakulam in the state of Kerala in South India. Another church, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, which declared themselves as an independent orthodox church by avoiding the supremacy of the Patriarch, also maintains some ties with the Syriac Orthodox Church. Knanaya Syrian Orthodox Church is an archdiocese under the Syriac orthodox patriarchate. The language of the Syriac Orthodox Divine Liturgy in India is mostly in Malayalam along with Syriac.
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