SYRO-MALANKARESE CHURCH

SYRO-MALANKARESE CHURCH. A second Indian, Uniate body, originating from a break with the Mar Thoma Orthodox in 1930, and numbering perhaps a quarter million. They continue to use the liturgy of the western Syrian, or Jacobite, tradition that the Mar Thoma Church (qq.v.) adopted in the 1660s as the result of its break with the Portuguese-imposed union and reestablishment of ties with Mesopotamia (q.v.).