The disagreement over the word is not pedantry. Rome's account is that the Saint Thomas Christians were in communion with the wider church until the seventeenth-century ruptures, and that 1930 restored it for those who chose it. The Malankara Orthodox account is that a serving metropolitan of an autocephalous church left it, taking parishes and property with him at a moment when that church was already fighting the Jacobite party in court. Both accounts are documented and neither is dishonest. The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church has grown partly by drawing from both Malankara Orthodox and Jacobite parishes, which is why the two Orthodox bodies have been cool toward it even while their theological dialogue with Rome has advanced.