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|headquarters = [[St. Mary's Cathedral, Pattom|Cathedral of Saint Mary]], [[Pattom]], [[Kerala]], [[India]]
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|other_names = Malankara Syrian Catholic Church,
|website = [https://malankaracatholicchurch.in/ Official site]
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The Malankara Syrian Catholic Church was formed on 20 September 1930 as a result of the reunion movement under the leadership of Archbishop [[Geevarghese Ivanios]], when it split from the [[Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church]] and entered into communion with the Catholic Church. The Malankara Church itself had emerged from the split within the [[Saint Thomas Christian]] community of the 17th century; after the [[Coonan Cross Oath]] in 1653, the Malankara Church emerged as the faction that stood with Archdeacon [[Thoma I]] in swearing to resist the authority of the [[Latin Church|Latin Catholic]] [[Portugal|Portuguese]] ''[[Padroado]]''. This faction entered into a relationship with the [[Syriac Orthodox Church|Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch]] and adopted the [[West Syriac Rite]] (the Saint Thomas Christians of India had until this point used the [[East Syriac Rite]] inherited from the historic [[Church of the East]]).<ref name=Gregorios285>Gregorios & Roberson, p. 285.</ref><ref name=Vadakkekara91>Vadakkekara, p. 91.</ref> The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church represents the group from this Malankara faction that reunited with Rome in the 20th century (1930), though retaining the West Syriac [[Ritual family|liturgical rite]].
Mar Ivanios started to have negotiations with the Holy See of Rome in 1926 to enter into a new communion. The two bishops including Ivanios, a priest, a deacon and a layman were received into the Catholic Church together on 1930. By 1950 there were some 65,588 faithful, in 1960 112,478, and in 1970 183,490. There are now over
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==Statistics==
According to the Pontifical yearbook ''[[Annuario Pontificio]]'' for
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