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SOCMNet
is an internet platform of Malankara Jacobite Syrian Christians
(Malankara
Jacobite Syrian Christian Church - under the Holy See of the
Patriarch
of
Antioch and all the East.)
According to tradition,
Christianity in India was established by
St. Thomas, who arrived in Malankara (Kerala) from Edessa in
A.D. 52. The Church in Malankara has had close ties with the
Church in the Near East ever since.
The ties between the Church in Malankara and the Near East
formalized and strengthen by, when under the leadership of the
merchant Thomas of Cana and 72 families (around
400 odd persons comprising men, women and children, reached
Cragananore (Kodungalloore). The group consisted of the Bishop
Mor Joseph of Edessa as well as some
priests and deacons) traveled
and migrated to India and met Christians there by AD 345.
The
church in Malankara is an integral part of the
Universal Syriac
Orthodox Church with the Patriarch of Antioch [His
Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas] as its supreme
head. The local head of the church in Malankara is the
Catholicose of India [His
Beatitude Baselios Thomas I], ordained by and accountable to
the Patriarch of Antioch.
The web sites in the
SOCMNet are not official
web sites of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Malankara, even
though the Owners, Moderators and Webmasters owe allegiance to
the hierarchy of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church. However,
opinions and responses of the Church leadership are posted here.
Under the
SOCMNet umbrella the
following forums and services are grouped:
Websites we maintain
Books we Published
Our Associated Projects
Projects we support
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Theeram -
Program for mentally
challenged children, undertaken by India Center for Social
Change (ICSC)
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SEUSOMM -
Saint Ephrem Universal Syrian Orthodox Medical Mission, the
social ministry of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church of
Antioch
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