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Jacobite Church

Jacobite Church , Christian church of Syria, Iraq, and India, recognizing the Syrian Orthodox patriarch of Antioch as its spiritual head, regarded by Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox as heretical. It was founded (6th cent.) as a Monophysite church in Syria by Jacob Baradaeus, greatly helped by Empress Theodora. It is thus analogous in position to the Coptic Church, the Monophysite church of Egypt. For many centuries the Jacobites were under Muslim dominion. Most Jacobites live in Iraq, while their patriarch resides at Damascus. They resemble other Eastern Christians in custom; their rite is the Antiochene or West Syrian; the liturgical language is Syriac. Since the 17th cent. there has been constant contact with Rome; as a result there is a community in communion with the pope having practices and rite in common with the Jacobites. These "Syrian Catholics" number about as many as the Jacobites; their head, another patriarch of Antioch, lives at Beirut. They have a separate church organization from the Melchites, Maronites, and Chaldaean Catholics, which are other communities of Syria and Iraq in communion with Rome. In Malabar, India, there is a Christian sect of "Malabar Jacobites" ; this group came into existence in the 17th cent., when the bulk of the Malabar Christians left the Roman communion and established relations with the Jacobite patriarch. They now use the Antiochene rite, with some differences. They are divided into two disputing jurisdictional parties, and there is a quasi-Protestant group of "Reformed Jacobites." In the 20th cent. a large number of Malabar Jacobites entered into communion with the pope, retaining their liturgy and practices. These "Malankarese Catholics" are ecclesiastically separate from both the Syrian Catholics, whose rite they share, and from the "Syro-Malabar Catholics" (Chaldaean rite), who represent the Malabar Christians who did not leave the Roman communion when the Malabar Jacobites did.

Bibliography: See D. Attwater, The Christian Churches of the East (1947-48).

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	THE JACOBITE. Magazine article from: Quadrant; 11/1/1998; ; 122 words ; Eternally a threadbare Jacobite, He passes like a shadow through the town, Accustomed to the exile of the night And loyal to some wholly other Crown. Seeing the town, how cosily it lies, He fleetingly imagines he could stop, Adopt another name, a slight disguise, Marry and settle there and run a Read more

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