{
  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 174,
  "chapterName": "1934. The Constitution of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India",
  "pageFrom": 361,
  "pageTo": 361,
  "pages": [
    {
      "pageNumber": 361,
      "ocrText": "SOURCE MATERIALS\n361\n174. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE MALANKARA\nORTHODOX SYRIAN CHURCH OF INDIA (1934 A.D.)\nHere certain clauses of the constitution adopted by the Malankara\nOrthodox Syrian Church of India in 1934 are reproduced. These relate\nto certain features of its origins and present constitution, with special\nreference to its relationships with the Patriarch of Antioch. The\nConstitution of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.\nArticles:\n1. The Malankara Church is a division of the Orthodox Syrian\nChurch. The Primate of the Orthodox Syrian Church is the\nPatriarch of Antioch.\n2. The Malankara Church was founded by St. Thomas the\nApostle and is included in the Orthodox Syrian Church of the\nEast and the Primate of the Orthodox Syrian Church of the East\nis the Catholicose.\n3. The ancient and real name of the Malankara Church is the\nMalankara Orthodox Syrian Church although it is also wrongly\ncalled The Jacobite Church', for the same reasons for which the\nOrthodox Syrian Church has been also called so.\n94. The prime jurisdiction regarding the temporal, ecclesiastical\nand spiritual administration of the Malankara Church is vested\nin the Malankara Metropolitan subject to the provisions of this\nconstitution.\n99. The throne of the Catholicose was re-established in the\nOrthodox Syrian Church of the East which includes the Malankara\nChurch, in A.D. 1912 and this institution has been functioning\never since in the Orthodox Syrian Church of the East.\n100. The powers of the Catholicose include the consecration of\nPrelates, presiding over the Episcopal Synod, declaring its decisions\nand implementing them, conducting administration as representative\nof the Synod, and consecrating the Holy Mooron.\n101. The Malankara Church will recognise the Patriarch, canoni-\ncally consecrated with the co-operation of the Catholicose.\n114. If any one shall be consecrated as Catholicose he shall be\nelected to that office by the Association. If such election is approved\nby the Episcopal Synod, the Synod shall consecrate that person as.\nCatholicose. If there be a Patriarch recognised by the Malankara\nChurch the Patriarch shall be invited when the Catholicose shall be\nconsecrated and if the Patriarch arrives he shall as the President.\nof the Synod consecrate the Catholicose with the co-operation\nof the Synod.",
      "status": "completed"
    }
  ]
}