The Syro-Malabar Church

Denomination·Founded 1599 CE·est. ~5.5 million by the 2023 Annuario Pontificio, in Kerala, the rest of India and a large migrant diaspora.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → The Eastern Catholic Churches → The Syro-Malabar Church

Branch

Rites & Ritual

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The Holy Qurbana, and which way the priest faces. The East Syriac liturgy in Malayalam, sung throughout, is the centre of Syro-Malabar life. From 2021 it was also the centre of an open revolt: the synod ordered a uniform mode in which the priest faces the people for part of the Qurbana and the altar for the rest, and the archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, with about half a million faithful and hundreds of priests, refused. When Weekly on Sunday, and daily in most parishesWho The parish; in Kerala, most of the village Go deeper — context →
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