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Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
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Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
The
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
(,
Edtha d'Malabar Suryaya
) or
Church of Malabar Syrians
is an
Eastern Catholic
Major Archiepiscopal
Church in
full communion
with the
Bishop
of
Rome
, the
Pope
. It is one of the 23
sui iuris
Eastern Catholic Churches
in the Catholic communion. The Church is headed by
Major Archbishop
Cardinal
George Alencherry
of the
Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly
in
Kerala
,
India
. The members of the Church are known as
Mar Thoma Nasranis
or Syrian Catholics. It is the largest of the Nasrani denominations with around 4.6 million believers and traces its origins to the evangelistic activity of
Thomas the Apostle
in the 1st century.
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