1. Church History

3. The Twelve

4. The Rationalist

5. My Lord
and
My God

8. A Dutch Wall painting showing Habban with Thomas

9. Kodungaloor (Muziris)
SILK ROUTE
SPICE ROUTE
Bombay
Kodungaloor (Muziris)

10. SPICE ROUTE

11. Cranganur where Thomas landed
St. Thomas AD
Cranganur where Thomas landed
Romans called it Muziris

12. Gondophares Indo-Parthian king was baptized by St.Thomas in Taxila

13. Coin of Gondophares (20-50 CE), first and greatest king of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom. Obv: Bust of Gondophares and Greek legend: BACIΛEΩC CΩTHPOC VNΔOΦEPPOV "King Gondophares, the Saviour". Rev: Winged Nike holding a diadem, with a Kharoshti legend: MAHARAJASA GUDAPHANISA TRATARASA "King Gondophares, the Saviour".

14. China
Indoparthian
King
Gondaphores
TAXILA
St. Thomas the Apostle was martyred (pierced with a lance) on July 3, 72 AD at Mylapore as he was praying in a mountain cave
Kavery
Mylapore
Kodungallur

15. Bardesan the Syrian Philosopher – Poet
Acts of Thomas AD By
Bardesan the Syrian Philosopher – Poet

16. When Thomas arrived the religious scenario was:
Aryan Vedic Religion
Budhism
Jainism

17. ACTS OF THOMAS
BARDESANES OF SYRIA 230 AD

18. Mylapore, Madras, India Edessa. Syria Ortona, Italy
The relics of Thomas was moved to Edessa by Vasudeva !
From there it was later moved to Ortona, Italy
Mylapore,
Madras,
India
Edessa.
Syria
Ortona,
Italy
The current status of the Relics preserved at Ortona - Italy

19. Vaseduva I gold coin "Mazdai" of Act of Thomas
Vaseduva I may have been the Indian king who returned the relics of the Apostle St. Thomas from India to Edessa in 232 CE.
The Indian king is named as "Mazdai" in Act of Thomas, "Misdeos" and "Misdeus" in Greek and Latin sources, is "Bazdeo" on the Kushan coinage of Vasudeva I

20. There are around 9 million Christians in Kerala at present.
Many Keralites became Christians even before St. Peter reached Rome in 68 A.D.
There are around 9 million Christians in Kerala at present.  

21. In Kerala
Aryan Vedic Religion All Brahmins became Christians We claim inheritance from those Brahmin families
Budhism
These are atheistic religions.
They died out in Kerala
Jainism

22. The 7 churches were Cranganore (Maliankara) 2. Chavakad (Palur)
3. Parur near Alwaye
4. Gokamangalam,
5. Niranam
6. Nilakkal (Chayal)
7. Quilon (Kalyan).
Nilakkal is near Sabarimala,

23. Thomas ministry extended all over India and beyond
Thomas ministry extended all over India and beyond. There must have existed churches all over India.

24. Barthelomew also came to India
Barthelomew also came to India. There must have existed churches all over India.
He brought the Gospel of Mathew to India

25. India became Hindu by 3C AD
India became HINDUISM
Through the Gnostic heresy from Iran
Through the heretic called Manicaen
Who came to India in 3rd C
India became Hindu by 3C AD

26. Hinduism is a Christian Heresy
Vaishnavism
Saivism
Hinduism came into existence - 3C AD

27. We know that: Christianity was in India
There existed a thriving Christian community in Kerala at that time.
Among the Dravidians in Central India (Kaveri Area) there was a Church as early as 293 AD

28. There existed Christians in AP area
72 families of Christians of Vellala origin from Kavery Poopatanam of Pulur District on the River Kaveri arrived in Kollam (Quilon) in Kerala as refugees fleeing from the persecution in AD 293.
In Central India
There existed Christians in AP area
One Maniccavachagar followed them in AD 315 and reconverted them back to the Gnosticism.

29. Kerala was the safe haven for Christians
Historically well documented Christian Kingdom of Villarvattom Pana Dynasty lasted nearly a millennium from 510 to 1439 AD.
Kerala was the safe haven for Christians
In Kerala
This kingdom was destroyed at the coming of the Portugese and the invasion of Roman Catholicism

30. was the main religion of Kerala until 8thC AD

31. 7th Century Persian Cross at the Kottayam St
7th Century Persian Cross at the Kottayam St.Mary's Church (Valiyapally)

32. Mahapilla’ or Mapila (Great Sons = Sons of the Kings) Kerala was ruled by Christians till
800 AD
“Nazrani" (People who follow Nazarenes)

33. Kananaya churches THOMAS CANA: 345 AD.
Syrian Immigration
Following the persecutions of Christians in Syria
Kananaya churches
AD 825 Mor Sabor Easo and Mor Porth

34. Chepped I kept in the Marthoma Church Head Quarters Thiruvalla.

35. Chepped II kept in the Marthoma Church Head Quarters Thiruvalla:
Side 1 .

36. Chepped II
kept in the Marthoma Church Head Quarters Thiruvalla: Side 2 .

37. The Bishops who came from Babylonian Patriarchate were Nestorians.
Though there were such ecclesiastical connections and ministrations, the Church in Malabar was independent in administration under its own Archdeacons. .
Nestorius  

38. The Church in India founded by St
The Church in India founded by St.Thomas the Apostle, remained monolithic till the advent of European missionaries in the 15th century.
Since there were no Bibles in Malayalam, they brought Syrian priests to read and interpret them .

39. Church Read and explained the Bible Clergy from Syria
Conducted rituals and looked after Spiritual Matters
All Administrative jobs of the Church
Church
Elected Archdecons

40. An English journalist attended Sunday service in a local church in Kerala. The altar was free from idols, built in Persian architecture of the East.
The priestly robes resembled the dress code of the Jewish high priests. The liturgy was written and recited in high tone, in 'Syriac' (a derivative Edessene dialect of Aramaic which Jesus Christ Himself used). Nestorius was mentioned as a bishop in it.

41. Roman Catholic Imposition
Vasco De Gama Portugese Colonization
Roman Catholic Imposition
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER: 1542

42. Roman Catholic Imposition
June 20, 1599
at the Village of Udayampoor,
Synod of Diampur.
153 Syrian priests and approximately 600 lay representatives were forced to sign the synod documents in which they "promised obedience and submission to the Roman Pontiff".
Roman Catholic Imposition
All documents of Kerala Christians were burned
We lost all our history prior to this period.

43. Roman Catholic Ritualism
"We prohibit, also, the permitting of the laity to have the books of the Old or New Testament, unless any one should wish, from a feeling of devotion, to have a Psalter or Breviary, for divine service, or the Hours of the Blessed Virgin. But we strictly forbid them to have the above-mentioned books in the vulgar tongue."
Synod of Toulouse 1229

44. Portugese settlements:
Portugese Dutch Denmark French British
Portugese settlements:
Cannore
Mahi
Calicut
Cochin

45. THE DUTCH WEST INDIA COMPANY (De Westindische Compagnie), 3rd of June 1621.
Dutch were Protestants
Dutch Colonization

46. Rebuilding Malabar Church
Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Ahattulla (Abdulla of Turabdin)
enroute he was imprisoned by the Portuguese navy and was murdered and drowned in sea in AD. 1653, by the Portuguese and their Roman Catholic counterparts.

47. French Colonisation

48. Bible Expansion of British Rule. Colonisation brought in
British India
Expansion of British Rule.
Colonisation brought in
Colonial Exploitation +
Education and Missionaries
Bible

49. BRITISH EMPIRE

50. Free – dependent
Viceroy
Christians were given lot of privileges. School system of education started.

51. 53 years
Roman Catholic Domination

52. Makaram 3rd, Friday
3rd January 1653 AD at Mattancherry, under the leadership of Archdeacon Thomas and a Knanaya priest, Anjilimmoottil Ittythomman Kathanar (Rev. Itty Thomas), about Syrian Christians held on to a rope tied to a leaning cross (an ancient assyrian cross that had become leaning with the passage of centuries) and pledged

53. Koonan Kurisu Sathyam
“We or our children and their children to all generations to come will have nothing to do with the Roman Catholic Church nor the Pope of Rome from now on."

54. 1813 English Christian missionaries came to India They started Schools and colleges and Seminaries
The first Anglican mission (CMS) started to work in Kerala in 1816.
Malayalam grammar was written Hermen Gondert in 1872  
They started English schools and published the Bible in Malayalam.
Hermen Gondert

55. The Synod of Mavelikara (1818) officially decided to have close
Cooperation between the missionaries and the Syrians.
Kottayam Pazhaya Seminary
Kottayam CMS Press (1821) by Benjamin Baily.
The first newspaper was the 'Rajya Samacharam‘ (National News) which was printed at Basel Missions Press in 1847
'Jyana Nikshepam'(Knowledge Compendium) News paper was started in 1847 by Bailey

56. Benjamin Bailey Malayalam New Testament
1829:Through the efforts of Rev. Benjamin Bailey a
Malayalam New Testament
is published
He was the first Principal of the Kottayam CMS College.
Benjamin Bailey

57. Serampore University

58. 1836 the Malankara Church decided to sever all ties with CMS
1836 March 8:C.M.S. Missionaries and their supporters meet at mallapally and inaugurate the Anglican Church.
The C.M.S Church

59. 1837-1845: Abraham Malpan of Palakunnathu (Maramon)
starts Reform Movement

60. He translated Holy Qurbana into Malayalam and eliminated prayers for the dead in 1837 for which they were excommunicated by Dionysius IV in He retreated to his parish at Maramon and celebrated this Qurbana. He drowned the wooden image of a saint called Moothappan from the Church.

61. Rt. Rev. Mathews Mar Athanesius Metrapolitan ( 1843 - 1877 )
He sent his nephew Deacon Mathew, who was then studying in Madras, to the Patriarch at Mardin in Syria. The Patriarch, ordained him as priest and consecrated him as Metropolitan, with the name
Mathews Mar Athanasius got the royal proclamation in 1852 declaring him as the Metropolitan of the Malankara Church.
Rt. Rev. Mathews Mar Athanesius Metrapolitan ( )

62. Malankara Throne
Used in 1655 onward

63. 1875 Mathews Mar Athanasius was deposed by Ignatius Mar Peter IV, patriarch of Antioch, who visited India that year.
Consequent to this excommunication, Mar Athanasius and his followers were deprived of all the churches and properties.
The Church plunged into a litigation known as the
'Seminary Case'. ".

64. 1889
The Marthoma Church

65. LOGO of
THE MARTHOMA CHURCH

66. Valia Metropolitan (Retired)
Most Rev. Dr. Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma

67. Metropolitan
Rt. Rev. Dr. Joseph Mar Irenaeus Poolatheen, Tiruvalla Phone: ,

68. Suffragon Metropolitan ( Diocese of Chengannur-Mavelikara)
Rt. Rev. Dr. Zacharias Mar Theophilus
Oliver Aramana, Thittamel, Chengannur Phone:

69. Episcopa ( Ranni – Nilackal Diocese)
Rt. Rev. Geevarghese Mar Athanasius Mar Thoma Centre, Mandiram PO, Ranni Phone: , , (P) Fax: E-

70. Episcopa (Dioceses of Chennai-Bangalore & Malaysia-Singapore & Australia)
Rt. Rev. Geevarghese Mar Theodosius Mar Thoma Bhavan, 77,6th  Avenue, Harrington Road, Chelpet, Chennai Phone: , (P)
Fax:

71. Episcopa ( North America, UK & Europe Diocese)
Rt. Rev. Dr. Euyakim Mar Coorilos Sinai Mar Thoma Center, 2320, S. Merrick Avenue, Merrick NY , USA Phone:
Fax: E mail:

72. Episcopa ( Mumbai & Delhi Dioceses) Rt. Rev.Joseph Mar Barnabas
Mumbai address:Mumbai Marthoma Centre, Sector 10 A, Plot No: 18,Vasi Navi Mumbai  Phone: , (P),
Fax:
Delhi Address: Mar Thoma Centre, 26, Bhai Vir Singh Marg, Gol Market, New Delhi

73. Episcopa (Kunnamkulam - Malabar Dioceses) Rt. Rev
Episcopa (Kunnamkulam - Malabar Dioceses) Rt. Rev. Thomas Mar Timotheos Mar Thoma Centre, Makkada PO, Kakkodi, Kozhikode Phone : , , (P)
Fax:

74. Episcopa ( Kottayam - Kochi Diocese) Rt. Rev. Dr
Episcopa ( Kottayam - Kochi Diocese) Rt. Rev.Dr. Issac Mar Philoxenos Bethel Aramana, Manganam PO, Kottayam Phone : , (P)
Fax:

75. Rt. Rev. Dr. Abraham Mar Paulose,
Mar Thoma Kendram, Mannanthaia PO.,
Thiruvanathapuram
Phone :
Fax:

77. The Apostolic Succession of the Throne of St
The Apostolic Succession of the Throne of St. Thomas after the re-establishment of the episcopacy in the seventeenth century is as follows.
The throne used for this consecration in 1655 is still in the possession of the Mar Thoma Church

78. The Apostolic Succession of the Throne of St
The Apostolic Succession of the Throne of St. Thomas after the re-establishment of the episcopacy in the seventeenth century is as follows.
Archdeacon, Thomas by name, was duly consecrated with the title ‘Mar Thoma’ in 1665 by Mar Gregorius of Jerusalem who was associated with the Jacobite Patriarchate of Antioch. Thus the Episcopal continuity was restored with Mar Thoma I as the first Indian Metropolitan. Thus began the relation of the Syrian Church with the Antiochene Jacobites. Because of the relationship with the Syrian Church, the Church in Malankara (Malabar) was also known as Syrian Church of Malabar. 
Mar Thoma I ( ) (consecrated by 12 priests in and by Mar Gregorios of Jerusalem in 1665)

79. Mar Thoma II (1670 - 1686) (consecrated by Mar Thoma I and Mar Gergorios in 1669)

80. Mar Thoma III (1686 - 1688): (consecrated by Mar Ivanios in 1686)

81. Mar Thoma IV (1688 - 1728): (consecrated by Mar Ivanios I in 1688)

82. Mar Thoma V (1728 - 1765): (consecrated by Mar Thoma IV in 1728)

83. Mar Thoma VI (1765 - 1809): Dionysius I (consecrated by Mar Thoma V in 1760)

84. Mar Thoma VII (1808): (consecrated by Mar Dionysius in 1808)

85. Mar Thoma VIII (1809 - 1816): (consecrated by Mar Thoma VII in 1808)

86. Mar Thoma VI (1765 - 1809): Dionysius I (consecrated by Mar Thoma V in 1760)

87. Mar Thoma VII (1808): (consecrated by Mar Dionysius in 1808)

88. Mar Thoma VIII (1809 - 1816): (consecrated by Mar Thoma VII in 1808)

89. Mar Thoma IX (1816 - 1817): (consecrated by Mar Thoma VIII in 1816)

90. Mar Thoma X ( ): Pulikot Mar Dionysius II (consecrated by Mar Philoxenos, Thozhiyoor Church in 1816)

91. Mar Thoma XI ( ): Punnathara Mar Dionysious III (consecrated by Mar Philoxenos, Thozhiyoor Church in 1817)

92. Mar Thoma XII ( ): Chepat Mar Dionysisus IV (consecrated by Mar Philoxenos, Thozhiyoor Church)

93. Mar Thoma XIII ( ): Mathews Mar Athanasius (consecrated by Moran Mar Elias Patriarch of Antioch at Mardin on February 17, 1842)

94. Mar Thoma X ( ): Pulikot Mar Dionysius II (consecrated by Mar Philoxenos, Thozhiyoor Church in 1816)

95. Mar Thoma XI ( ): Punnathara Mar Dionysious III (consecrated by Mar Philoxenos, Thozhiyoor Church in 1817)

96. Mar Thoma XII ( ): Chepat Mar Dionysisus IV (consecrated by Mar Philoxenos, Thozhiyoor Church)

97. Mar Thoma XIII ( ): Mathews Mar Athanasius (consecrated by Moran Mar Elias Patriarch of Antioch at Mardin on February 17, 1842)

98. Mar Thoma XIV (1877 - 1893): Thomas Mar Athanasius (consecrated by Mathews Mar Athanasius in 1868)

99. Mar Thoma XV ( ): Titus I Mar Thoma (consecrated by Mar Koorilose IV, Thozhiyoor Church in 1893)

100. Mar Thoma XVI ( ): Titus II Mar Thoma (consecrated by Titus I and Geevarghese Mar Koorilose, Thozhiyoor Church in 1898)

101. Mar Thoma XVII ( ): Abraham Mar Thoma (consecrated by Titus II and Mar Koorilose, Thozhiyoor Church in 1917)

102. Mar Thoma XVIII ( ): Juhanon Mar Thoma (consecrated by Titus II and Mar Koorilose, Thozhiyoor Church in 1937)

103. Mar Thoma XIX ( ): Alexander Mar Thoma Valia Metropolitian (consecrated by Juhannon Mar Thoma and the Metropolitan of the Thozhiyoor Church on May 23, 1953)

104. Mar Thoma XX ( ): Philipose Mar Chrysostom Valia Mar Thoma Metropolitan (consecrated by Alexander Mar Thoma)

105. Churches do not save.
Jesus do.

106. Sadhu Kochunju Upadesi

107. Maramon Convention