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*1975-1991 [[w:Baselios Mar Thoma Mathews I|Baselios Mar Thoma Mathews I]], the 5th ''Catholicos of the East & Malankara Metropolitan.''
*1977 The [[w:Thrikkunnathu Seminary|Thrikkunnathu Seminary]] and its Saint Mary’s Church building were closed in December, owing to an ownership dispute between the [[Church of India|Indian (Malankara) Orthodox]] and the [[Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church|Jacobite Syrian Christian Church]].
*1980 Greek [[hieromonk|priest-monk]] Fr. Athanasios Anthides travelled to India to begin a systematic Orthodox Mission in the rural area of [[w:Arambag|Arambah]], in [[w:West Bengal|West Bengal]] state, in eastern India..*1990 Death of Fr. Athanasios Anthides, first Greek Orthodox Missionary to India, suceeded a year later by priest-monk Fr. Ignatios Sennis, who came to [[w:Kolkata|Calcutta ]] to continue the mission.
*1991-2005 [[w:Baselios Mar Thoma Mathews II|Baselios Mar Thoma Mathews II]], 6th ''Catholicos of the East & Malankara Metropolitan.''
*1995 June 20, the Supreme Court of India unequivocally declared that "The Patriarch of Antioch was undoubtedly acknowledged and recognised by all the members of the Malankara Church as the supreme head of their Church", implying that the [[Church of India|Indian Orthodox Catholicate]] is part of the [[Church of Antioch (Syriac)|Syriac Orthodox Church]] and is not autocephalous.[[Image:Bavacatholicos.jpg|right|thumb|[[Baselios Didymos I|Baselius Marthoma Didymus I]], Catholicos of the East & Malankara Metropolitan, [[Church of India]], [2005-Present].]]
