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The Syriac Orthodox Church today is headquartered at Bab Touma in Damascus, Syria. Excluding the patriarchal Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church in India the Syriac Orthodox Church is divided into 27 archdioceses and patriarchal vicariates scattered across the globe. The current primate of the Church is Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I (Iwas) of Antioch and All the East.
== Church of Antioch in India ==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 both of them were not neither is ready for a compromise, there arose are many civil disputescurrently in the courts.
At present, there are 3 two factions of the Orthodox Communities Church in India.They are:
* [[Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church]]
This Church recognises recognizes the Patriarch of Antioch only as the highest ranking Spiritual Leaderhierarch of the Church of Antioch, but without any administrative authority in India. The legally (by Malankara Association as per the decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India) elected Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan is its Supreme and administrative Headthe primate of this Church, which claims autocephaly under Antioch.
* [[Malankara Jacobite Syrian Syriac Orthodox Church|Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church]]
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