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The Orthodox Church in India is in a difficult stage due to conflict between the factions of the ''Patriarch of Antioch'' and the ''Catholicos of East''. As neither is ready for a compromise there are many civil disputes currently in the courts. At present there are two factions of the Orthodox Church in India. They are: * [[Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church]] This Church recognizes the Patriarch of Antioch as the highest ranking hierarch of the Church of Antioch, but without any administrative authority in India. The legally (by Malankara Association as per the decision of the Supreme Court of India) elected Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan is the primate of this Church, which claims autocephaly under Antioch.
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The '''Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch''' or '''Patriarchate of Antioch''' is one of the [[Oriental Orthodox]] churches. Prior to the [[Fourth Ecumenical Council|Council of Chalcedon]] in 451 the Church of Antioch was united, but after the Council two lines of patriarchs arose, one supported by the East Roman Empire that favored Chalcedon and another persecuted by the East Romans that rejected Chalcedon. The Church is also known as the ''Jacobite'' Church after one of the more prominent leaders of the movement against Chalcedon, St. [[Jacob Baradaeus]], and follows the [[West Syrian Rite]].
==History==
The Church of Antioch played a central role in the first three ecumenical councils that shaped the doctrine and structure of the Orthodox Church. After the split over Chalcedon a struggle developed within the Church for the control of the patriarchate, with the Roman emperors generally favoring those in favor of Chalcedon, but occasionally also supporting those who opposed it. In 518 the anti-Chalcedon patriarch, St. [[Severus of Antioch]], was exiled from the city and never returned. Since then the patriarchs of the Syriac Orthodox Church have changed the seat of their patriarchate several times. Aleppo, Malatya, Diyarbakir, Mardin, and Homs all served as seats of the Patriarchs of Antioch, who only moved to Damascus in 1959.
Despite its glorious past the Syriac Orthodox Church is today a small remnant of what it once was due to the persecution of the East Romans in the 500s and 600s that was followed by the arrival of Islam, the atrocities of the Crusaders in the 1000s and 1100s, the depredations of the Mongols, and the genocides conducted under the Ottoman Turks and Kurds in the late 1800s and early 1900s in the heartlands of the Church in upper Mesopotamia (known as the Sayfo or Sword). Despite all of this the Church has continued to produce great scholars, theologians, and saints through the centuries, among them Sts. [[Jacob of Edessa ]] and [[Gregory of Ebroyo ]] ('Bar Hebraeus').
==Church Worldwide Today==
== Church of Antioch in India ==
* [[Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church|Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church]]
== External Links ==
*[http://www.syrian-orthodox.com/news.php Patriarchate of Antioch] (Official Website)
*[http://newwww.alepposuryoyeMalankaraSyriacVoice.com/ Archdiocese of Aleppo] (Official Website)*[http://www.MalankaraSyriacVoice.com/ News Site Of Syriac Orthodox Church In India] (Official Website)
*[http://zunoro.com/ Archdiocese of Homs and Hama] (Official Website)
*[http://www.syriacorthodox-mlb.com/ Archdiocese of Mount Lebanon] (Official Website)
[[es:Iglesia Ortodoxa Siriana]]
[[fr:Église d'Antioche (syriaque)]]
[[ro:Biserica Ortodoxă Siriacă a Antiohiei (Siriacă)]]