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      "chunk_data": "The portion of the judgement of the Royal Court of Travancore of 1889 here cited has important bearing upon the question of the relationship of the Orthodox Church in Kerala with the Patriarch of Antioch.",
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      "chunk_data": "(Para.) 347. The conclusions we have arrived at on the whole, are that the Respondent's claim is not barred by limitation;",
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      "chunk_title": "Antiochene Ecclesiastical Supremacy",
      "chunk_data": "that the Ecclesiastical Supremacy of the See of Antioch over the Syrian Church in Travancore has been all along, recognised and acknowledged by the Jacobite Syrian Community and their Metropolitans;",
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        "event": "The judgement recognized the longstanding ecclesiastical supremacy of the See of Antioch over the Syrian Church in Travancore.",
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      "chunk_title": "Metropolitan Ordination Authority",
      "chunk_data": "that the exercise of that supreme power consisted in ordaining, either directly or by duly authorised Delegates, Metropolitans from time to time to manage the spiritual matters of the local Church;",
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        "event": "The See of Antioch exercised its supreme power by ordaining Metropolitans directly or through authorized delegates.",
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      "chunk_title": "Holy Oil and Spiritual Supervision",
      "chunk_data": "in sending Morone (Holy oil) to be used in the churches in this country for Baptismal and other purposes and, in general supervision over the spiritual government of the Church;",
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        "event": "The See of Antioch sent Morone, or holy oil, for baptismal and other church purposes and generally supervised the Church's spiritual government.",
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      "chunk_title": "Limits of Patriarchal Authority",
      "chunk_data": "that the authority of the Patriarch has never extended to the government of the temporalities of the Church which, in this respect has been an independent Church;",
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      "chunk_data": "that the Metropolitan of the Syrian Jacobite Church in Travancore should be a native of Malabar consecrated by the Patriarch of Antioch, or by his duly authorized Delegates and accepted by the people as their Metropolitan to entitle him to the spiritual and temporal government of the local Church;",
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      "chunk_title": "Respondent's Metropolitan Succession",
      "chunk_data": "that the Respondent had been so consecrated and accepted by the majority of the people and consequently had a perfect right to succeed to the Metropolitanship on the death of Mar Athanasius;",
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