Puthankoottukar

The Puthankoottukar (പുത്തൻകൂറ്റുകാർ, Puttankūṯṯukāṟ) are the faction of the Saint Thomas Christian community in South India which remained unwilling to restore ties with the Catholic Church and the Pope, after the united community broke the Portuguese Catholic hegemony through the Coonan Cross Oath in 1653. They instead chose to align with the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch and organised themselves as the 'Malankara Church' under Archdeacon Thoma Parambil, thereby developing a long standing relationship with the Syriac Orthodox Church since 1665.

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