Malankara Orthodox-Jacobite church dispute

Malankara Orthodox-Jacobite church dispute

Emblem of Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East Emblem of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church Emblems of both Churches (Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church)
Date	1912 – 1958 and 1976 - present
Also known as	Orthodox schism Orthodox Church schism
Type	Christian schism
Cause	Power struggle between the trustees of the church, namely, Malankara Metropolitan Dionysius Vattasseril on one side and Korah Mathen Konatt and C. J. Kurian on the other Decision of Dionysius Vattasseril to: remove Korah Mathen Konatt as Priest trustee of the Malankara Church remove C. J. Kurian as the lay trustee of the Malankara Church Decision of Patriarch Ignatius Abded Aloho II to: suspend Dionysius Vattasseril as Malankara Metropolitan appoint Paulose Koorilos Kochuparambil as Malankara Metropolitan Decision of Ignatius Abded Mshiho II to Revive and relocate the autocephalous Catholicate of the East to India Elevate Paulose Ivanios Murimattathil as the Catholicos (Maphrian) for the Malankara Church Entrust the patriarchal rights to the Catholicos
Participants	Primary: Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East; Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. Secondary: Dionysius Vattasseril, Korah Mathen Konatt, C. J. Kurian; Koorilos Kochuparambil, Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church; Ignatius Abded Aloho II, Ignatius Abded Mshiho II; Baselios Paulose I, P. T. Geevarghese.
Outcome	The excommunication of Dionysius Vattasseril by Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Abded Aloho II. Creation of the autocephalous Catholicate of the East in India by Ignatius Abded Mshiho II. Schism in the Malankara Church and formation of Patriarchal "Bawa Party" and Anti-patriarchal "Metran Party" Independence of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church Severing of submission to Ignatius Abded Aloho II, by the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.

The Malankara Orthodox-Jacobite church dispute or the Schism of 1912 was the split in the Malankara Syrian Church that led to an ongoing series of church disputes in Kerala, India. The dispute, also known as the Second Community Case or the Second Vaṭṭippaṇa Case (Malayalam: രണ്ടാം സമുദായക്കേസ്, രണ്ടാം വട്ടിപ്പണക്കേസ്), has been intertwined with continuous litigations and has resulted in the formation of two rival church bodies, namely the autocephalous Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Church, an autonomous church under the Syriac Orthodox patriarchate of Antioch. Although the Indian supreme court judgement of 1995 made a terminal legal conclusion of the dispute, the disagreements related to the administration of the parish church property continues to cause occasional law and order problems and significant obstruction to a permanent solution of the dispute. The dispute in three of these parishes was moved to the court and its final verdict was made by the Supreme Court in 2017, in favour of the Malankara Orthodox Church.

The dispute remains unresolved, and police interventions to implement the judgement continue to meet intense protest and confrontation in churches currently administered by the Jacobite Church. The continuing dispute also led to increased sectarianism among members of the once undivided community and the solidification of the schism between the two rival factions.