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Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church or simply Indian Orthodox Jacobite Syrian Christian Church is one of the oldest Christian community communities in India. It is believed to have established by Apostle Thomas in his journey to Indian India in 52 AD.

Indian Church had connection with the Catholicate of East ever since its establishment in 410 AD by then Patriarch Head of Antioch. Catholicate of East came under the Patriarchate as an autonomous body of Orthodox Christianity within the Patriarchate of Antioch.  A group of Orhtodox Christians viewed that this Catholicate is only a deputy of the Patriarchate of Antioch. Another view was that the Catholicate is independent Church in its fucntional area, but India is part of the Patriarchate.  This two views, conflicted each other since the re-establishment of Catholicate in India in 1912 AD. But the two Groups united each other recognising the Patriarch as the Spiritual leader and the [[Catholicos]] as the Supreme leader in Indian Churches in 1958 AD ending all disputes. When the church was united a group of old fraction supporting the Patriarch split again and establised a new Catholicate to compete with the United fraction of 1958. This newly split fraction under the leadership of present Catholicos His Beatitude Mor Baselius Baselios Thomas I, establised a new constitution for and the church in 2002, following their loss in supreme head is the verdict given by the apex court in IndiaH. Many a times this dispute has led to law and order problems in many churches in IndiaH. But still nowIgnatius Zakka I Iwas, the Malankara jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church is not seperate from the Indian branch Patriarch of autonomous Orthodox church. Dialogues Antioch and discussions exists from various corners for unificationall the East.