Other churches-Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant-also trace their histories to the Thomas Christians. and capabilities for delivering ads or content, for example, to deliver the right size ad creative or video file in a format supported by the device. Rowena Robinson, Christians of India (New Delhi: Sage, 2003), 39. Zachariah, "The Syrian Christians of Kerala: Demographic and Socioeconomic Transition in the Twentieth Century" (working paper, Center for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, November 2001), 9. Sonja Thomas, " The Tying of the Ceremonial Wedding Thread: A Feminist Analysis of 'Ritual' and 'Tradition' Among Syro-Malabar Catholics in India," Journal of Global Catholicism 1, no. Syro-Malabar Catholics, Syro-Malankara, and Latin Catholics may receive communion at each other’s liturgies. Seven churches in Kerala and Tamil Nadu are commonly said to have been founded by the Apostle, and a Christian tradition grew up from there, linked to the East Syrian Church, which was a primary source for Syro-Malabar Christians' liturgy, spirituality, governance and practices. Thomas the Apostle, who is said to have come to India in 52 AD and to have been martyred near Chennai. Syro-Malabar Catholics trace their origin to St. Possible languages include English, Dutch, German, French. In language, dress and other customs, they do not differ from their Hindu counterparts.” 1 Many Syrian Christians, including Syro-Malabar and Syro-Malankara Catholics, “regard themselves as the descendants of the high caste Nambudiri Brahman converts of Saint Thomas." 2 French to English translation results for malabar designed for tablets and mobile devices. “There may be some faint traces of Syrian blood in a few Syrian Christian families, but the vast majority of the community today belongs to one or other of an Indian race, Dravidian or Aryan. The adjective “Syro” in Syro-Malabar, like the broader definition of “Syrian Christian” in India, refers to the liturgical rite that the Christians celebrate, not to Syrian ethnicity. The Syro-Malabar Church is Indian in history and makeup, an ancient church with its own hierarchy under the authority of the pope. All other Indian Catholics are "Latin" rite, not because they worship in Latin, but because their liturgical tradition is the Roman rite, celebrated in local languages). (Another Eastern Church, the Syro-Malankara Church, also is centered in India. As many as 5 million Indian Catholics belong to the Syro-Malabar Church, one of 23 "Oriental" or "Eastern" churches in full communion with the Catholic Church.
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