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*52 [[Church of India|Church in India]] was founded by St. [[Apostle Thomas|Thomas the Apostle]].*1498 The Portuguese reached the Indian shore in 1498, along with them came Roman Catholic missionaries.*1653 [[w:Coonan Cross Oath|Coonan Cross Oath]] by which all connections with the Portuguese Roman Catholics and Jesuits (Roman Catholic supremacy) was rejected by the St Thomas Christians.*1665 The "Jacobite" bishop, Mar Gregorios of Jerusalem came to India, confirming the Episcopal consecration of [[w:Mar Thoma I|Mar Thoma I]] as the head of the Orthodox [[Church of India|Church in India]] (Oriental Orthodoxy restored); this was a new beginning in the history of modern Malankara Church.*1772 [[Malabar Independent Syrian Church]] splits from the main Orthodox Christian body; this church is not in full communion with other Orthodox Churches.*1876 Council of the Malankara Church at Mulanthuruthy, presided over by [[w:Ignatius Peter IV|Patriarch Ignatius Peter IV]], who had been summoned to assist in efforts against the inroads of Protestantism supported by the British, declared that the Malankara Church accepts the supremacy of the patriarch and that it keeps the Jacobite faith (of the Antiochans); this was against the historical status of the Malankara Church.*1910 Formation of the [[Archdiocese of Knanaya]], a part of the 1912 [[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 'Methran Kakshi'Catholicose of the East'(Bishop' in India, with the participation of (deposeds Party) 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 declares autocephaly from 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 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 after a vertical split in 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 Churchin 1911; the two factions of the Malankara Church, viz: [[Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church]] ''(Patriarchal, "Jacobite", or 'Bava Faction)'' and [[Church of India|Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Indian Orthodox Church)]] 'Kakshi'(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 Syriac Orthodox Church]] ''(Patriarchal, "Jacobite", or Bava Faction)'' and [[Church of India|Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Indian Orthodox Churchs Party)]] ''(Catholicos, or Methran Faction)'' split again.*1995 June 20, on 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 other hand remained as the supreme head of their Church", implying that the Indian Orthodox Catholicate is part an autonomous jurisdiction 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.