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:

• SOCM Forum  - A Discussion Forum in Yahoo

• Shroro - Monthly Internet Magazine (English)

• Shubho  Radio Malankara - Official Internet Radio of Malankara Jacobite Syrian Christian Church

• Teshbuhto  Malankara Vision - Official Internet Television of Malankara Jacobite Syrian Christian Church

• SOCM Prayer Cell - Fortnightly 24 hour Global Chain Prayer Service

• Dukhrono - Global service for remembrance in Holy Qurbono

Websites we maintain

• Niranam Diocese - Official website of Niranam Diocese of Malankara Jacobite Syrian Christian Church

• Manjinikara Dayara - Official website of Manjinikkara Dayaro

• Mor Thimotheos Yakub - Metropolitan & First Principal of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Theological Seminary

• Msabrono Nasiho Mor Koorilose Kuriakose  - Former Diocesan Metropolitan of Niranam, Quilon and Thumpamon of Malankara Jacobite Syrian Christian Church

Books we Published

• Quintessence of Religious Doctrine - The English translation of 'Mathopadesa Sarangal', written by Mor Dionysuis Geevarghese Vattasseril

• Martyrs, Saints and Prelates of the Syriac  Orthodox Church - written by Rev. Fr. Dr. K Mani Rajan

Our Associated Projects

• Viswasa Samrakshakan - (Defender Of The Faith) - An Internet  Malayalam Fortnightly Publication

Projects we support

• Theeram - Program for mentally challenged children, undertaken by India Center for Social Change (ICSC)

• SEUSOMM - Saint Ephrem Universal Syrian Orthodox Medical Mission, the social ministry of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch

This web site is developed and maintained by

Moderators of SOCM-Forum