![]() Thomas, one of Jesus’s twelve disciples, who reached Kerala in the year 52 A.D. The other belief is that their ancestors were converted by St. One is that each and every Syrian Christian is descended from a Namboodiri or Keralite Brahmin convert to Christianity. Most (but not all) Syrian Christians, irrespective of their sect, have two pet beliefs. Syrian Catholics owe allegiance to the Pope in Rome, the Jacobites to the Patriarch (or Bava) based in Antioch (modern day Turkey), the Orthodox Syrian Christians to a Catholicos based at Devalokam in Kottayam, Kerala, the Marthomites to a Metropolitan based at Thiruvalla in Kerala and the Anglicans to the Archbishop at Canterbury. Syrian Christians may be Syrian Catholics or Jacobites or Orthodox or Marthomites or even Anglican Christians. The Syrian Christians of Kerala form a caste that is as distinctive as any other in India. ![]()
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