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Apr 25, 2015 · The Indian Orthodox Church (also known as the Malankara Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church of the East, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC), Orthodox Syrian Church of the East ), is among the newest members of the Oriental Orthodox Church family. The Church was formed in 1912 after a schism in the Malankara Syrian Orthodox (Jacobite) Church.
History. THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF INDIA The Malankara Orthodox Church hereafter referred to as the Orthodox Church of India or the Indian Orthodox Church, is the second largest faction of the ancient church of the St Thomas Christians in India, which stood till 1657 as a single and united Church with an indigenous character of its own.
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Feb 19, 2016 · Thousands of churches today bear his name, their rituals and theology derived from Eastern Orthodox traditions in the liturgical language Syriac, a formation of Aramaic, the dialect Jesus—and...
The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC) also known as the Indian Orthodox Church (IOC) or simply as the Malankara Church, is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church headquartered in Devalokam, near Kottayam, India. It serves India's Saint Thomas Christian (also known as Nasrani) population.
- 1 million
- 1st century by tradition
The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, popularly also known as the Indian Orthodox Church is a prominent member of the family of Oriental Orthodox Churches. The autocephalous Indian Orthodox Church is today headed by the Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan His Holiness Moran Mar Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II, who is the head of all ...
Oct 8, 2015 · Two Indian Orthodox women greet visitors in front of their church in Akkaparambu, India. (photo: Sean Sprague) In the eighth century, the Church of the East’s catholicos appointed a Mesopotamian cleric as “metropolitan and Gate of All India.”
Catholicate of the East The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church was founded by St. Thomas, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, who came to India in A.D. 52.
