{"pages":{"361":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00385-89675fe0c387563c4e8e.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":458,"y":167,"width":253,"height":18}},{"text":"361","box":{"x":992,"y":165,"width":55,"height":22}},{"text":"174. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE MALANKARA","box":{"x":185,"y":230,"width":796,"height":27}},{"text":"ORTHODOX SYRIAN CHURCH OF INDIA (1934 A.D.)","box":{"x":166,"y":265,"width":837,"height":28}},{"text":"Here certain clauses of the constitution adopted by the Malankara","box":{"x":207,"y":317,"width":788,"height":27}},{"text":"Orthodox Syrian Church of India in 1934 are reproduced. These relate","box":{"x":166,"y":342,"width":826,"height":27}},{"text":"to certain features of its origins and present constitution, with special","box":{"x":171,"y":366,"width":824,"height":28}},{"text":"reference to its relationships with the Patriarch of Antioch. The","box":{"x":173,"y":391,"width":820,"height":27}},{"text":"Constitution of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.","box":{"x":169,"y":415,"width":703,"height":28}},{"text":"Articles:","box":{"x":119,"y":473,"width":130,"height":21}},{"text":"1. The Malankara Church is a division of the Orthodox Syrian","box":{"x":167,"y":511,"width":876,"height":32}},{"text":"Church. The Primate of the Orthodox Syrian Church is the","box":{"x":120,"y":537,"width":924,"height":34}},{"text":"Patriarch of Antioch.","box":{"x":120,"y":567,"width":291,"height":25}},{"text":"2. The Malankara Church was founded by St. Thomas the","box":{"x":165,"y":611,"width":878,"height":34}},{"text":"Apostle and is included in the Orthodox Syrian Church of the","box":{"x":115,"y":637,"width":928,"height":32}},{"text":"East and the Primate of the Orthodox Syrian Church of the East","box":{"x":116,"y":667,"width":926,"height":32}},{"text":"is the Catholicose.","box":{"x":123,"y":696,"width":248,"height":24}},{"text":"3. The ancient and real name of the Malankara Church is the","box":{"x":165,"y":740,"width":875,"height":29}},{"text":"Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church although it is also wrongly","box":{"x":113,"y":767,"width":931,"height":35}},{"text":"called The Jacobite Church', for the same reasons for which the","box":{"x":120,"y":795,"width":922,"height":31}},{"text":"Orthodox Syrian Church has been also called so.","box":{"x":116,"y":822,"width":724,"height":31}},{"text":"94. The prime jurisdiction regarding the temporal, ecclesiastical","box":{"x":144,"y":868,"width":898,"height":34}},{"text":"and spiritual administration of the Malankara Church is vested","box":{"x":116,"y":894,"width":922,"height":31}},{"text":"in the Malankara Metropolitan subject to the provisions of this","box":{"x":119,"y":922,"width":924,"height":36}},{"text":"constitution.","box":{"x":116,"y":951,"width":171,"height":25}},{"text":"99. The throne of the Catholicose was re-established in the","box":{"x":143,"y":996,"width":894,"height":28}},{"text":"Orthodox Syrian Church of the East which includes the Malankara","box":{"x":112,"y":1024,"width":925,"height":29}},{"text":"Church, in A.D. 1912 and this institution has been functioning","box":{"x":115,"y":1052,"width":922,"height":32}},{"text":"ever since in the Orthodox Syrian Church of the East.","box":{"x":115,"y":1081,"width":813,"height":29}},{"text":"100. The powers of the Catholicose include the consecration of","box":{"x":126,"y":1126,"width":912,"height":29}},{"text":"Prelates, presiding over the Episcopal Synod, declaring its decisions","box":{"x":108,"y":1154,"width":929,"height":31}},{"text":"and implementing them, conducting administration as representative","box":{"x":112,"y":1181,"width":925,"height":32}},{"text":"of the Synod, and consecrating the Holy Mooron.","box":{"x":112,"y":1207,"width":722,"height":32}},{"text":"101. The Malankara Church will recognise the Patriarch, canoni-","box":{"x":127,"y":1252,"width":907,"height":32}},{"text":"cally consecrated with the co-operation of the Catholicose.","box":{"x":109,"y":1279,"width":866,"height":31}},{"text":"114. If any one shall be consecrated as Catholicose he shall be","box":{"x":125,"y":1324,"width":911,"height":29}},{"text":"elected to that office by the Association. If such election is approved","box":{"x":111,"y":1352,"width":924,"height":34}},{"text":"by the Episcopal Synod, the Synod shall consecrate that person as.","box":{"x":109,"y":1380,"width":931,"height":34}},{"text":"Catholicose. If there be a Patriarch recognised by the Malankara","box":{"x":110,"y":1408,"width":922,"height":31}},{"text":"Church the Patriarch shall be invited when the Catholicose shall be","box":{"x":111,"y":1436,"width":922,"height":28}},{"text":"consecrated and if the Patriarch arrives he shall as the President.","box":{"x":111,"y":1465,"width":932,"height":28}},{"text":"of the Synod consecrate the Catholicose with the co-operation","box":{"x":109,"y":1494,"width":922,"height":31}},{"text":"of the Synod.","box":{"x":111,"y":1523,"width":206,"height":25}}]}}}