Syro-Malabar is a prefix reflecting the church's use of the East Syriac liturgy and origins in Malabar (modern Kerala). The name has been in usage in official Vatican documents since the nineteenth century.

The Syro-Malabar Church is Indian in history and makeup, an ancient church with its own hierarchy under the authority of the pope. The adjective “Syro” in Syro-Malabar, like the broader definition of “Syrian Christian” in India, refers to the liturgical rite that the Christians celebrate, not to Syrian ethnicity.

Mar 5, 2019 · During this time, the East Syric Rite created more eparchies both in India and throughout the world. Eventually, this led to the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church becoming the second largest of all the Eastern Catholic Churches. Today, Over three million Syro–Malabarese Catholics live in the state of Kerela, in Southwest India. Liturgy and Traditions

The restoration of the hierarchy initiated a process of liturgical reform that sought to restore the oriental identity of the Latinized Syro-Malabar rite, which was approved by Pius XII in 1957 and introduced in 1962.

Mar 5, 2023 · inauthentic manipulations, the Syro-Malabar Church restored its Eastern and East Syriac liturgical identity over the course of a century (1923-2023) through a gradual and painful process of restoration and reform under the paternal care of the Roman Pontiffs and the accompanying guidance of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches.

History of Syro-Malabar Catholics in Kerala. The Syro Malabar Church was founded by St.Thomas, one of the 12 Apostles, who traveled after the Pentecostal experience, to the farthest country then known to proclaim the Good News. He set sail to India and landed in Kodungalloor, Kerala in 52 A.D.

The Syro-Malabar liturgy, known as the Qurbānā, or Offering, originates in the Chaldean church in Persia. As such, it differs from the liturgy of the Syro-Malankara church, the other Syrian Catholic church in India.

The restoration of the hierarchy initiated a process of liturgical reform that sought to restore the oriental identity of the Latinized SyroMalabar rite, which was approved by Pius XII in 1957 and introduced in 1962.

Jul 29, 2009 · The name Syro-Malabar was chosen apparently to avoid confusion with the Malabar rite which existed as a part of the Latin Church in the Coromandel coast of India. Even those who remained in communion were fighting for getting Bishops of their own rite and nation.

The Malankara Rite is the form of the West Syriac liturgical rite practiced by several churches of the Saint Thomas Christian community in Kerala, India.West Syriac liturgy was brought to India by the Syriac Orthodox Bishop of Jerusalem, Gregorios Abdal Jaleel, in 1665; in the following decades the Malankara Rite emerged as the liturgy of the Malankara Church, one of the two churches that ...