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• It says:
• “The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church or Church of Malabar Syrians is a Major Archiepiscopal Church in full communion with the Catholic Church… The members of the Church are known as Mar Thoma Nasranis or Syrian Catholics. It is the largest of the Nasrani denominations with around 4.6 million believers and traces its origins to the evangelistic activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century.”
• In other words, this is a mainstream Church in communion with the Catholic Church. It is large, with 4.6 million believers. They trace their history to the disciple Thomas, in the first century. It was founded on the Aramaic New Testament, not Greek or any other language. Their liturgy is still conducted in Syriac, in Aramaic, to this very day. They have been faithful to that Aramaic New Testament that was preached to them in A.D. 52 by Thomas himself.