Saint Thomas Christians
Indian ethnoreligious group
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| 2024 | Kerala Government presented a community-wise account of government employees in its Legislative Assembly, revealing that Saint Thomas Christians comprise 13.5 percent (73,713) of the total 5,45,423 government employees in the state. |
| August 4 2022 | Fr. Dr. Thomas Varghese Amayil is elected as the latest Clergy Trustee of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. |
| October 15 2021 | Mathews III becomes the Malankara Metropolitan and Catholicos of the East, succeeding Paulose II. |
| October 14 2021 | H.G. Dr. Mathews Mor Severios was consecrated as the 22nd Malankara Metropolitan during the Malankara Association at St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Parumala. |
| 2018 | Final Supreme Court ruling confirmed the validity of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church constitution. |
| 2018 | Supreme Court once more upheld the validity of the church's 1934 constitution, definitively resolving long-standing legal challenges. |
| July 3 2017 | A major Supreme Court of India verdict declared the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC) legally applicable to all parishes previously in disputed possession between the MOSC and Jacobite Syrian Christian Church. |
| March 1 2017 | Fr. Dr. M.O. John becomes Clergy Trustee, serving until August 4, 2022. |
| November 2016 | Patriarch of Ethiopia Abune Mathias visited the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. |
| 2015 | Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares was declared a regional saint by Paulose II at St. Mary's Orthodox Church, Ribandar. |
| 2015 | Fr. Roque Zephrin Noronah was declared a regional saint by Paulose II at St. Mary's Orthodox Cathedral, Brahmavar. |
| 2012 | The centennial of the establishment of the church and Catholicate was celebrated, marked by history classes and church publications. |
| March 7 2012 | Fr. Johns Abraham Konat is re-elected as Clergy Trustee for another term, serving until March 1, 2017. |
| 2010 | Paulose II succeeds Didymos I as Malankara Metropolitan and Catholicos of the East. |
| 2010 | Devika and Varghese documented the significant social impact of St. Thomas Christians in Kerala, describing them as a powerful minority present in all fields of life. |
| February 2010 | Armenian Catholicos of Cilicia Aram I Keshishian visited the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. |
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