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

Bishop M. K. Koshy<br />

It pained all those who loved the reformation and the evangelical thrust the St.Thomas Evangelical<br />

Church of India brought within the Malankara Syrian Christians. After a long series of efforts from the<br />

laity these differences were finally ironed out and unity returned within the Church. However the damage<br />

done by the power struggle to the early evangelistic thrust of the Church into the various parts of India<br />

will take a long time to undo.<br />

The major contribution of the St.Thomas Evangelical Church of India was it emphasis on evangelization<br />

of India as a whole.<br />

Classification of Malankara Syrian Churches<br />

The Syro Malankara Church<br />

Eastern Catholic (Papal)<br />

Malankara Syrian Catholic Church<br />

Brothren<br />

Churches<br />

Independent<br />

Pentecostal<br />

Churches<br />

The<br />

Assemblies of<br />

God<br />

Eastern Syrian<br />

The Syro Malabar Church<br />

(Syrian Catholic Church)<br />

West Syrian Reformed<br />

The<br />

St.Thomas<br />

Evangelical<br />

Church of<br />

India<br />

Oriental<br />

The Church of the East<br />

(Nestorian Church)<br />

The church of South India<br />

The<br />

MarThoma<br />

Syrian<br />

Church<br />

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