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The Throne of St. Thomas is currently held by six bishops from different denominations in India. They were all once part of the same Malankara Church and eventually broke off because of the Europeans.
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Indian Orthodox Church) The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church is an autocephalous (Independent) Oriental Orthodox Church that is in Communion with the Oriental Orthodox Churches. The Indian Orthodox Church (also known as the Malankara Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church of the East, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Orthodox Syrian Church of the East), is a prominent member of the Oriental Orthodox Church family. ...
The term Oriental Orthodoxy refers to the churches of Eastern Christian traditions that keeps the faith of only the first three ecumenical councils of the undivided Church - the councils of Nicea, Constantinople and Ephesus. ...
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- His Holiness Mathews Mar Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I
Malankara Jacobite Orthodox Syrian Church The patriarchal fraction is an Autonomous Oriental Orthodox Church, under the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch and in Communion with the Oriental Orthodox Churches. The Syriac Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church based in the Middle East with members spread throughout the world. ...
Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
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- His Beatitude Mar Baselios Thomas I
Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church The Mar Thoma Syrian Church is an Autocephalous (Independent) Oriental Orthodox Church in origin but reformed and inclined to Episcopalian Tradition, but not in Communion with the Oriental Orthodox Churches. The Mar Thoma Church (also known as The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church) is a schismatic branch of the pre-16th century undivided Syrian Orthodox Church, and got its current identity in 1889, even though it was born much earlier. ...
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- His Grace the Most Rt. Rev. Dr. Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church with a Major Archiepiscopal Status. It came to existence after the Connen Cross Oath of 1693. The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church is a Major Archiepiscopal Eastern Rite Church sui iuris with historical ties to the Chaldean Catholic Church in communion with the Church of Rome. ...
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- His Eminence Varkey Cardinal Mar Vithayathil
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church with a Major Archiepiscopal Status. It was established when Mar Ivanious and seven laymen and a deacon left the Malankara Orthodox Church and joined in union with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1960's. The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is a Major Archepiscopal sui iuris Eastern Rite Roman Catholic Church in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, with historical links to the Syrian Catholic Church. ...
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- His Eminence Clemmis Mar Baselios Bawa Catholicose
An autocephalous (independent) Oriental Orthodox in its theology, but not in communion with the Oriental Orthodox Church but in communion with the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church The Malabar Independent Syrian Church (Thozhiyur Sabha) is a Church of Syriac Orthodox tradition in South India. ...
The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, commonly referred to as the Mar Thoma Church is a Reformed offshoot of the pre-16th century undivided Syrian Orthodox Church, and got its current identity in 1889, even though it was born much earlier. ...
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- His Eminence Alathoor Panakkal Joseph Mar Koorilose IX
St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India (STECI) is an Evangelical, Episcopal Church which firmly affirms that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant and infallible Word of God. All that is necessary for our salvation and living in righteousness is given in the Bible. It further affirms that the Church has a responsibility to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all the nations of the world, especially to India. *** The St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India can somehow be considered to be held to the Throne of St. Thomas. Please feel free to post your comments in the discussion forum.
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