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*1772 [[Malabar Independent Syrian Church]] splits from the main Orthodox Christian body; this church is not in full communion with other Orthodox Churches.
*1910 Formation of the [[Archdiocese of Knanaya]], a part of the [[Church of Antioch (Syriac)|Syrian Orthodox Church]].
*1912 Autocephaly, with the relocation in India of the ''[[w:List of Catholicos of the East|Catholicate of the East]]'', which historically had been in Seleucia and later in Tigris; consecration of the first Indian Catholicose, Moran Mar [[w:Baselios Paulose I|Baselios Paulos]] (1912-14), first ''Catholicose of the East'' in India, with the participation of (deposed?) Patriarch [[w:Ignatius Abdul Masih II|Abdul Messiah]] of Antioch and (excommunicated?) Malankara Metropolitan [[w:Geevarghese Mar Dionysius of Vattasseril|Geevarghese Dionysius]]; the Indian Orthodox Church view is that the ''Catholicate of the East'' is autocephalous and in the legitimate succession of St. Thomas the Apostle, citing use of the term ''"throne of St. Thomas"'' in documents since at least 1301 AD, and that this was a period of religious turmoil where the Patriarch of Antioch interfered and suspended the Malankara Metropolitan, demanding complete surrender, leading to this event; two factions thus emerge in Oriental Indian Orthodoxy: the [[Malankara Jacobite Syrian Syriac Orthodox Church]] ''(Patriarchal, "Jacobite", or Bava Faction)'' and [[Church of India|Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Indian Orthodox Church)]] ''(Catholicos, or Methran Faction)''.
*1934 Constitution of the [[Church of India|Orthodox Church in India]] as an autocephalous Church linked to the [[Church of Antioch (Syriac)|Orthodox Syrian Church of the Patriarch of Antioch]].
*1958 On September 12, the constitutional bench of the Supreme Court of India recognized the validity of the Catholicate and unanimously declared that the Patriarch of Antioch does not have any authority over the Malankara church and that the Indian church is completely free under the Catholicos of the East; by an accord, Syrian Patriarch [[w:Ignatius Ya`qub III|Ignatius Yakoub III]] affirmed his canonical acceptance of the Catholicate as well as the Constitution of the Indian Orthodox Church; the two factions of the Malankara Church, viz: [[Malankara Jacobite Syrian Syriac Orthodox Church]] ''(Patriarchal, "Jacobite", or Bava Faction)'' and [[Church of India|Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Indian Orthodox Church)]] ''(Catholicos, or Methran Faction)'' were re-united.
*1972 The new Catholicos, [[w:Baselios Augen I|Augen I]], began to claim that he is seated on the throne of St. Thomas, favoring autocephaly and "Thomasine" hierarchical succession.
*1975 A Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church excommunicated the Catholicos and his followers; the Catholicos and the Metropolitans convened their own Synod separately, and cut off connections with the Patriarch of Antioch; thus the [[Malankara Jacobite Syrian Syriac Orthodox Church]] ''(Patriarchal, "Jacobite", or Bava Faction)'' and [[Church of India|Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Indian Orthodox Church)]] ''(Catholicos, or Methran Faction)'' split again.
*1995 June 20, the Supreme Court of India unequivocally declared that "The Patriarch of Antioch was undoubtedly acknowledged and recognised by all the members of the Malankara Church as the supreme head of their Church", implying that the Indian Orthodox Catholicate is part of the [[Church of Antioch (Syriac)|Syriac Orthodox Church]] and is not autocephalous.
*2002 The two groups conducted their own Syrian Christian Association meetings and since then are functioning independently; the Malankara Jacobite faction adopted a new constitution, against the constitution of 1934.