The Forgotten Bishops : : The Malabar Independent Syrian Church and its Place in the Story of the St Thomas Christians of South India / / John Fenwick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Fenwick, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (652 p.)

The Malabar Independent Syrian Church is the smallest of the jurisdictions into which the St Thomas Christian community is divided today. It has, however, played a crucial role in the development of the Syrian Churches, whose stories can not be told without it. The present work shows how the bishops of this tiny, one-Diocese Church, now largely forgotten, once stood at the centre of the events that shaped the present ecclesiastical situation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Illustrations -- Sources -- Abbreviations -- Note on Terminology, Episcopal Nomenclature, Spelling and dates -- Acknowledgements -- Map of Travancore, Cochin and British Malabar circa 1800 -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Indian Context -- Chapter 2: Syrian Christianity -- Chapter 3: ‘Syrian’ Christianity in India to 1498 -- Chapter 4: The Consequences of European Contact – An Overview -- Chapter 5: The Struggle For Independence and Identity 1653- 1751 -- Chapter 6: The Consequences of the Maphrian’s Delegation of 1751: I - The Quarrel With Mar Thoma V -- Chapter 7: The Consequences of the Maphrian’s Delegation of 1751: II - The Consecration of Two Bishops -- Chapter 8: Mar Koorilose I And Mar Dionysios I: Further Themes -- Chapter 9: The Early 19th Century – Two Lines of Succession....285 A Brief Review of Sources -- Chapter 10: The Golden Age: Geeverghese Mar Philoxenos II, Malankara Metropolitan -- Chapter 11: Mar Koorilose III and the Termination of the Mission of Help -- Chapter 12: Mathews Mar Athanasios -- Chapter 13: Independence Secured -- Chapter 14: The End of the Old Order and the Consecration of Titus I Mar Thoma -- Chapter 15: The Twentieth Century: Expansion, Obscurity and New Initiatives -- Chapter 16: The Significance Of The Malabar Independent Syrian Church -- Bibliography -- Index