The two groups of the Syrian Church, namely the Jacobite Syrians and the Orthodox Syrians continued court battles and finally in 1960 the Supreme Court of India ruled putting an end to the litigation. But even after this temporary reunion the division emerged again. Today there are again two divisions, the Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Syrian Christians owing allegiance to the Catholicos of the East and the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Christians owing allegiance to the Patriarch of Antioch in Syria. Very recently the supreme court of India has once again ruled putting an end to legal struggles between those two groups and recognizing the legitimacy of the Catholicos.

At present the Church is having a population of over 2.5 million and has 21 dioceses all over the world including three outside India inclusive in the Seven outside Kerala. The Church has already stamped its mark in various fields of humanitarian missions like education, upliftment of the poor, orphanages, old age homes, leprosy rehabilitation center, guidance center, hospitals, etc. , to name a few.

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