Church of India explained

Church of India may refer to:

General

• Christianity in India
  • Saint Thomas Christians
    • Malabar Church (historic, general)
    • Malankara Church (historic, general)
  • Oriental Orthodoxy in India
  • Catholic Church in India
  • Protestantism in India
  • Eastern Orthodoxy in India

Eastern churches

Church of the East / Assyrian

• India (East Syriac ecclesiastical province) (historical overview)
• Chaldean Syrian Church (Assyrian Church of the East in India)

Oriental Orthodox

• Jacobite Syrian Christian Church (Syriac Orthodox Church of India)
• Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Indian Orthodox Church)

Eastern Catholic

• Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
• Syro-Malankara Catholic Church

Reformed/independent

• Malabar Independent Syrian Church
• Mar Thoma Syrian Church (Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church)
• St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India

Western churches

• Anglican Church of India, a part of the Continuing Anglican movement
• Church of India, Burma and Ceylon (CIBC; later of India, Pakistan &c, CIPBC), the historic province of the Anglican Communion in British India
• Church of North India (United Church, Protestant), and a successor of the CIPBC. Previously Church of the Brethren in India
• Church of South India (United Church, Protestant), and a successor of the CIPBC
• Evangelical Church of India, an extension of One Mission Society
• Presbyterian Church of India
• Reformed Presbyterian Church of India
• South India Reformed Churches also known as Reformed Church of India

See also

• Indian Church (disambiguation)
• Communion of Churches in India - representative body of three mainland Protestant Churches in India: The Church of North India, The Church of South India, and the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church (refer to above)
• National Council of Churches in India
• United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India