|
Related websites
Australia:
www.assyrianchurch.com.au
www.assyrianchurchnews.com
www.churchdiscussion.com
Russia:
www.assyrianchurch.narod.ru
Iran:
www.margivargis.012webpages.com
Los Angeles:
www.stmaryassyrianchurch.com
|
| Welcome to The Church Of The East - India |
 |
 |
|
 |
| |
| |
PATRIARCH |
METROPOLITAN OF INDIA |
EPISCOPAS OF INDIA |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
H.H.Maran Mar DINHA IV |
Most Rev. Dr. Mar APREM |
Mar YOHANNAN
YOSEPH |
Mar AWGIN KURIAKOSE |
|
|
Assyrian Church of the East in India-Brief History
|
| The faithful remnant of the St Thomas Christians in India |
| |
| The Assyrian Church of the East in India is known as the Chaldean Syrian Church. Outside India the name Chaldean Church refers to that branch of the Church of the East which has a separate existence from 1553 AD when Pope consecrated a monk named John Sulaqa as the Patriarch of the Chaldeans of Babel. The head of Chaldean Church is Patriarch Cardinal Immanuel Delli who resides in Baghdad. The Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East is His Holiness Khanania Mar Dinkha IV who resides in Chicago where a lot of Assyrians from Iran and Iraq have migrated during the 20th Century. |
| |
The Chaldean Syrian Church in India is based in Trichur. The history of this church in the early centuries is the same as the history of the other Syrian churches in Kerala. From the arrival of St.Thomas till the coonen cross in 1653 the history of the Indian church is common. Therefore, referring to this period the account written by Fr. Dr. Geevarghese Panicker (a priest of the Syro-Malankara Church who accepted the Pope on 20 September 1930) published in the Journal of St. Thomas Christians, Vol. II, and No.2. Oct-Dec 2000 is reproduced below.
|
Malankara is another name for Kerala, the cradle of Christianity in India. St. Thomas, the Apostle came to Kerala in A.D. 52 and preached the gospel with great success. Not much is known about the early history of these St. Thomas Christians, but two facts stand out clearly. Between the 3rd and the 9th centuries there were waves of immigrants from Mesopotamia to Kerala, and from the early centuries, This Church, with its liturgical center in Edessa, had also claimed its origin from St. Thomas. Thus the East Syrian or Chaldean liturgy was used in Kerala until the 17th century. The Syrian Church (using the Syriac liturgy) in Kerala was undivided until the advent of the Portuguese.
Portuguese Domination
The Portuguese set up their headquarters in Goa early in the 16th century and extended their domain to Kerala. The Archbishopric of Goa, backed by the Portuguese, claimed jurisdiction over the Syrian Christians of Malabar. The East Syrian liturgy and the Mesopotamian connection of the St. Thomas Christians laid them open to suspicion of Nestorianism and Archbishop Menezes of Goa, who arrived in Kerala in December 1598 was determined to bring them into the Latin way of worship |
|
|
|
Read more.....
The Patriarch and Pope John Paul II signed a Common Christological Declaration on 11 November 1994 in Vatican. |
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
