Eastern in rite, Catholic in communion, and not a Latin diocese.
The church prays the Qurbana of Addai and Mari, keeps its own canon law, elects its own bishops within its territory and has been a major archiepiscopal church since 1992. Getting there took a century of asking Rome to undo what Rome had imposed, and the church regards its rite as a possession rather than a permission.
Sui iuris status means the church makes its own liturgical and disciplinary law within its territory, subject to papal confirmation for major acts. The long twentieth-century argument was about the restoration of the East Syriac rite after three centuries of Latinisation — Latin vestments, Latin devotions, the rosary, and a Qurbana reshaped toward the Roman Mass. Rome authorised a restored Qurbana in 1962 and a revised text in 1986. A second and unresolved argument concerns territory: the synod elects bishops freely only inside a defined area of Kerala, and appointments for the diaspora require Rome, which many Syro-Malabar bishops regard as an anomaly for a church of five million.
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