In addition to other member churches, the churches of the Anglican Communion are in full communion with the Old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht and the Scandinavian Lutheran churches of the Porvoo Communion in Europe, the India-based Mar Thoma and Malabar Independent Syrian churches and the Philippine Independent Church, also known as the Aglipayan Church.

*** Malabar Independent Syrian Church

* 52-Thomas arrives in Malabar and Coromandel Coast in India and founds church that subsequently becomes the Syrian Malabar Nasranis

* Mar Thoma X ( Malankara Metropolitan ) ( 1816 – 1816 ) – Also known as Pulikottil, Joseph Mar Dionysius was consecrated by Mar Philoxenos II of the Malabar Independent Syrian Church ( Thozhiyoor Sabha ).

Malayalam Calendar or the Kolla varsham is the calendar followed by people in the South Indian state of Kerala except Malabar & founded by chera King Rajashekhara Varma with the Tarissapalli copper plates of 825 AD to Assyrian Monk Mar Abo which introduced Syrian liturgy among vaishnavite Nambuthiri Christians of chera Kingdom ( present south & central Kerala ).

Tipu Sultan, his son led another invasion in 1786 to Thrissur, where he destroyed the churches of Syrian Malabar Nasrani community and Hindu temples.

The East Syrian Rite ( also known as the Chaldean, Assyrian, or Persian Rite ) has historically been used in Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Malabar.

An Eastern Catholic Bishop of the Syro-Malabar | Syro-Malabar Church holding the Mar Thoma Cross which symbolizes the heritage and identity of the Syrian Malabar Nasrani | Syrian Church of Saint Thomas Christians of Christianity in India | India

This visit resulted in the Mar Thoma faction claiming spiritual authority of the Antiochean Patriarchate and gradually introduced the West Syrian liturgy, customs and script to the Malabar Coast.

This group was known as Thozhyoor Church later named as Malabar Independent Syrian Church, after a court verdict on 28 May 1863.

The Syro Malabar Catholic Church and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church together constitute about 51. 4 per cent, the Syrian Orthodox and Syrian Jacobites together about 21. 4 per cent, the Mar Thoma Christians about 15. 7 per cent, the Church of South India 5. 2 per cent and others about 6. 3 per cent of Christian in the state.

Because of their orientation to the sea and to maritime commerce, the coastal cities of Malabar are very cosmopolitan and have hosted some of the first groups of Christians ( now known as Syrian Malabar Nasranis ), Anglo-Indians, Jews ( today called as Cochin Jews ), and Muslims ( at present known as Mappilas ) in India.

* Marthoma Malankara Syrian Church of Malabar

The Nasrani or Syrian Malabar Nasrani community in Kerala, India is conscious of their Jewish origins.

They are an endogamous sub-ethnic group among the Syrian Malabar Nasrani and are the descendants of early Jewish Christian settlers who arrived in Kerala in A. D 345.

* The Syrian Malabar Nasrani and Knanaya " Nazarenes ", a Christian group claiming ethnic Jewish descent in Kerala, India.

From the 16th century, the Portuguese meddled in the church affairs of the Syrian Christians of Malabar.

These Syrian Malabar Nasranis kept a unique Christian identity until the arrival of the Portuguese in the 17th century.

An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in Anglicanism, Chaldean Catholic, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop.

* Syrian Malabar Nasrani

The Saint Thomas Christians, also called Syrian Christians or Nasrani, are an ancient body of Christians from Kerala, India who trace their origins to the evangelistic activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century.

St. Marys Syrian Knanaya Church in Kottayam, Kerala containing ancient Nasrani symbols and Sassanid Pahlavi inscriptions.

The Nasrani are also known as Syrian Christians or St. Thomas Christians.

The Saint Thomas Christians ( also known as Nasrani or Syrian Christians ) from Kerala, South India still follow a lot of Jewish Christian tradition.

* Syrian Malabar Nasrani Christian community in India of Jewish descent

Most of the people belong to Syrian Malabar Nasrani and Hindu communities.

It was first published by a Syrian Catholic priest, Nidhirikkal Manikkathanar, or Father Emmanuel Nidhiri, or Nidhiry Mani Kathanar, under the masthead Nasrani Deepika.

( Nasrani in Malayalam means a Syrian Christian ).

* Syrian Malabar Nasrani

** Abgar V of Edessa ( Syrian Church )

Basil's treatise on virginity ; thirty nine discourses of St. Ephrem the Syrian, and many other works of the Fathers and writers of the Greek Church.

The Oriental Orthodox communion comprises six groups: Syriac Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, Eritrean Orthodox, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church ( India ) and Armenian Apostolic churches.

The Diatessaron was used as the standard Gospel text in the liturgy of at least some sections of the Syrian Church for possibly up to two centuries and was quoted or alluded to by Syrian writers.

** Astina ( Syrian Church )

** Ephrem the Syrian ( Roman Catholic Church and Church of England )

*** Jacobite Syrian Christian Church

** Abai ( Syrian Orthodox Church )

In the South Indian state of Kerala, ( and in Indian Orthodox, Church of South India ( CSI ), Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, and Syrian Orthodox Church ( Jacobite ) congregations elsewhere in India and throughout the West ), flowers are strewn about into the sanctuary on Palm Sunday during the reading of the Gospel at the words uttered by the crowd welcoming Jesus, " Hosanna!

* Saint Peter founds the Syrian Orthodox Church ( traditional date ).

* Emperor Zeno closes the School of Edessa ( modern Turkey ) for their teaching of Nestorian doctrine, whereupon the scholars seek refuge at the Syrian Church.

By this act, he creates a permanent schism between the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

** Jacobite Syrian Church

* Syro Malankara Catholic Church, International Homepage -- Eastern Syrian Church in India

This precipitated the Nestorian Schism, by which churches supportive of Nestorius, especially in Persia, were severed from the rest of Christendom and became known as Nestorian Christianity, the Persian Church, or the Church of the East, whose present-day representatives are the Assyrian Church of the East, the Chaldean Syrian Church, the Ancient Church of the East, and the Chaldean Catholic Church.