Malankara Metropolitan
Since the division among the Saint Thomas Christians following the Synod of Diamper, the title has been mostly employed in association with the West Syriac branch of the community, usually known as the Malankara Church, among whom the office of the Malankara Metropolitan became the continuation of the local dynastic Archdeaconate.After the arrival of Portuguese Catholic missionaries in Kerala in 1498 inaugurated the colonial period, many locals began to connect with the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch.The Catholicate was established and an Indian Orthodox metropolitan was elected as the head (Catholicos) of the Malankara Church by the Orthodox Faction, whereas the Jacobite fraction continued the patriarch as the supreme head of the church.Among them, the head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church was affirmed by the Supreme Court of India.In 1653 the Archdeacon position was elevated to Bishopric and the Metropolitan Bishop assumed the honorific ecclesiastical title Mar Thoma.[8] In 1815, during Col. John Munro's time as the British Resident of Travancore, Pulikkottil Joseph Ittoop Ramban was ordained as a bishop by Geevarghese Philexenos II (Kidangan) (1811-29) of Malabar Independent Syrian Church (Thozhyoor Church).[10] The reformed faction separated and organized themselves as the independent Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church.The Association Meeting held on 20 March 2002 at Parumala Seminary elected Baselios Mar Thoma Mathews II as the Malankara Metropolitan.The secret ballot voting was conducted at the seminary, and the result was declared by the Supreme Court Observer Justice V.S.The election was held as per the Supreme Court's 1995 judgment on the dispute in the Malankara church.Similar to the thronal cathedral, the headquarters of the Malankara Metropolitan was also located at individual churches of the incumbent's preference from 1653 to 1815.
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