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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN<br />

CHAPTER THIRTEEN<br />

ST THOMAS EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF INDIA<br />

Mar Thoma Church was the result of Reformation within the Malankara Church after it shook the burden<br />

of Rome. But the many teachings of the Roman and other foreign churches still remained dormant within<br />

the church. Though there were no intermarriages between "Mar Thomites" and the" Jacobites" time<br />

could not keep them separate. Intermarriage brought in the Jacobite teachings into Marthomite laity.<br />

Thus within the church an anti-reformist group developed. When Bishop Abraham Mar Thoma passed<br />

away in 1947, Bishop Juhanon Mar Thoma became the Metropolitan.<br />

Bishop Juhanon Mar Thoma<br />

Bishop Juhanon Mar Thoma being brought up by a Jacobite mother directly and indirectly subverted the<br />

reformation principles. Mar Thoma laity under the leadership of a prominent scholar and theologian<br />

K.N.Daniel opposed these moves within the church.<br />

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