Oriental Orthodox churches in India

Presently there are 4 churches in India that are part of Oriental Orthodox Churches. All of them are in full communion with each other, They are:

• Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC) also known as the Indian Orthodox Church (IOC) or simply as the Malankara Church,is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church headquartered in Devalokam, near Kottayam, India. It serves India's Saint Thomas Christian (also known as Nasrani) population. According to tradition, these communities originated in the missions of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century (circa 52 AD).It employs the Malankara Rite, an Indian form of the West Syriac liturgical rite.

• Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, it has two archdiocese under the jurisdiction of the Maphrainate(Catholicos of India) based in Puthencruz,Kerala and one archdiocese under patriarchal jurisdiction in India, all of which is an integral part of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch under the Patriarch of Antioch and all the East.
  • Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox church, headquartered in Puthencruz coming directly under the Catholicos of India consisting of several diocese.
  • EAE Archdiocese,^[1] headquarters in Perumbavoor.
  • Knanaya Syriac Orthodox archdiocese, headquartered in Chingavanam and is directly under the patriarchate and not under the catholicos of India as per the Syriac orthodox church constitution. The archdiocese consists of the ethnic Knanaya community.^[2]
• Armenian Apostolic Church, an Oriental Orthodox Church under the Catholicos of All Armenians, it has some churches in indian cities like Kolkata, Mumbai etc. It mainly caters to the Armenian diaspora
• Coptic Orthodox Church, an Oriental Orthodox Church under the Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, it has one church in Jalandhar, Punjab.^[3]

Other then the above mentioned Oriental Orthodox churches that recognize full communion with each other and are under distinct patriarchates, there are other churches in India mainly in the Indian state of Kerala that follow the Oriental Orthodox tradition and are not in communion with each other or with the above churches, some of these churches broke away from the Syriac Orthodox church of Antioch these include:

• Malabar Independent Syrian church

• Oriental Orthodox Churches
• Church of India (disambiguation)
• Jacobite Syrian Christian Church
• Malankara Knanaya Syrian Archdiocese