Question

[john.a]

I've been reading up a little bit on the history of the St. Thomas Christians in India and I'm confused about something.

Both the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church and the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church are Oriental Orthodox in faith: they both confess miaphysitism and they both make use of the Western Syrian rite...

... so why are there two Oriental Orthodox Churches in India? Are they in communion with each other? If not, which one is in communion with all the other Oriental Orthodox Churches (the Copts, the Armenians, the Ethiopians, the Syriacs)...

What's going on here?

 

[Andrew21091]

I've been reading up a little bit on the history of the St. Thomas Christians in India and I'm confused about something.

Both the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church and the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church are Oriental Orthodox in faith: they both confess miaphysitism and they both make use of the Western Syrian rite...

... so why are there two Oriental Orthodox Churches in India? Are they in communion with each other? If not, which one is in communion with all the other Oriental Orthodox Churches (the Copts, the Armenians, the Ethiopians, the Syriacs)...

What's going on here?

Both churches are in the Oriental Orthodox communion. The Malankara Church is fully independent while the Jacobite Church maintained ties to the Patriarch of Antioch. The second paragraph of this article talks about it briefly:
Jacobite Syrian Christian Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[christopherdombrowski]

The Jacobite Syrian Christian Church is the only one that is in recognized communion with the Syriac Orthodox Church.