Jacobite Liturgy

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Please, explain the difference between Jacobite and Roman in India. I know that the liturgies are different. I know that Jacobite is from a West Syrian version of the liturgy of St. James. What I don’t know are the significant differences between the Roman and Jacobite Liturgies. Are the Jacobites in India simply a rite of the Catholic Church whose dogmas are the same? Or are their more significant differences?

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Those Catholics of India who follow the so-called Jacobite, or West Syrian liturgy, are properly called Syro-Malankara Catholics. This is a sui juris church that came into existence in 1930, which is pretty late. It’s not even 100 years old yet.

Those who are not part of the Catholic Church are called Syriani Orthodox, and are split into two jurisdictions: one loyal to the Patriarch of Antioch, and one not in union with him.

While this is a link to the Syriac Orthodox Church (as they prefer to call themselves), their liturgy and that of the Syriani and Syro-Malankaras will be basically the same:

sor.cua.edu/Liturgy/Anaphora/index.html
 
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