Mar Thoma Syrian Church
A living tradition within Saint Thomas Christians (Kerala). The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Mar Thoma Syrian Church is a living tradition within Saint Thomas Christians (Kerala). Also written Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Britannica states the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church was founded in 1888 after a dispute in the Syriac church; its missionary wing, the Mar Thoma Evangelistic Association, operated more than 150 missions and ashrams in the early 21st century. [CORRECTION] foundedYear 1888 withdrawn. It rested on a single Britannica page that returns 403 to WebFetch, to curl with a browser User-Agent, and via the r.jina.ai proxy, so the claim stood on a search snippet. The Mar Thoma separation is a decades-long sequence of reform synods and litigation, not a one-year event. Competing anchors to be named, none chosen: the 19th-century reform synods and the Royal Court of Final Appeal verdict. Treated as the tree already treats Chaldean 1552/1553, Eritrean 1993/1998, Nazarene 1895/1907/1908 and Moravian 1457/1467.
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Citation
English
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John Shaqi. “Mar Thoma Syrian Church.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-mar-thoma-syrian-church.
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