How to Live
the ethic — what it asks of a life
Antioch decides.
The ordination oath binds clergy to the Patriarch of Antioch, and the Catholicos in India holds office under him rather than independently of him. This is precisely the point on which the two Malankara churches divide, and neither side treats it as a technicality: for one it is the guarantee of apostolic continuity, for the other it is foreign control of an Indian church.
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