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      "chunk_data": "1. The Malankara Church is a division of the Orthodox Syrian Church. The Primate of the Orthodox Syrian Church is the Patriarch of Antioch.",
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      "chunk_data": "3. The ancient and real name of the Malankara Church is the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church although it is also wrongly called 'The Jacobite Church', for the same reasons for which the Orthodox Syrian Church has been also called so.",
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        "event": "The constitution identifies the ancient and proper name of the church as the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and rejects the alternative designation Jacobite Church.",
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      "chunk_data": "94. The prime jurisdiction regarding the temporal, ecclesiastical and spiritual administration of the Malankara Church is vested in the Malankara Metropolitan subject to the provisions of this constitution.",
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      "chunk_data": "99. The throne of the Catholicose was re-established in the Orthodox Syrian Church of the East which includes the Malankara Church, in A.D. 1912 and this institution has been functioning ever since in the Orthodox Syrian Church of the East.",
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