Title: Population Statistics and Demography of Saint Thomas Christians, Churches with historical references
Headings: Population Statistics and Demography of Saint Thomas Christians, Churches with historical references
Population Statistics and Demography of Saint Thomas Christians, Churches with historical references
Population Statistics and Demography of Saint Thomas Christians, Churches with historical references
1. Historical Reference about Population of Saint Thomas Christians
1.1 The Undivided Church of Saint Thomas Christians
1.2 Statistics after the Coonan Cross Oath
a) Seventeenth Century
b) Eighteenth Century
Summary about Syro Malabar Catholics in Eighteenth century
Summary about Syriac Orthodox in Eighteenth century
c) Following Centuries
Among the Syro Malabar Church Catholics
1. Nineteenth Century
2. Twentieth Century
Among the Syriac Orthodox
1. Nineteenth Century
2. Twentieth Century
2.Current Population Statistics of Saint Thomas Christians
2.1 District wise Population & Percentile in Kerala
3. Individual Church Populations
a) Catholic Communion
b) Oriental Orthodox Communion
c) Anglican Communion
3.4-Mar Thoma Syrian Church – 550,000
d) Independent
3.5-Thoziyur Church- 10,000
e) Church of East Communion
3.6-Chaldean Syrian Church -25,000
a) Catholic Communion
3.1 Syro Malabar Church
3.2 Syro Malankara Church
b) Oriental Orthodox Communion
3.3 Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church ( Jacobite) & Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church ( Orthodox)
c) Anglican Communion
3.3 Mar Thoma Syrian Church
d) Independent
3.4 Thoziyur Church
e) Church of East Communion
3.5 Chaldean Syrian Church
4. Population of Other Churches in Kerala
Summary
* Based on available sources known to the Author and shared by others in discussion.
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Content: Letter dated 1st Jan 1629. Another letter of 4th Jan 1534). Archdeacon Thomas Parampil, in his letters to Pope and to the Cardinals of Propaganda, claimed that the Thomas Christians were more than 200,000. 4
Bishop Sebastiani ( first Latin Vicar Apostolic of Malabar), also in his report to Propaganda, gave the same number as given by the Archdeacon Thomas Parampil. Fr. Franics Barreto SJ, wrote in 1645, that the Thomas Christians were about 150,000. 5
1.2 Statistics after the Coonan Cross Oath
In the middle of Seventeenth century, followed with the Syond of Diamper ( 1599) and Coonan Cross Oath ( 1653), and subsequent happenings (1653-1665), the united Church of Saint Thomas Christians was gradually divided in to two: one with allegiance to Rome, the Catholics (Syro Malabar Church) and the other with allegiance to Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, the Syriac Orthodox. Following are the available statistics after the Coonan Cross Oath. a) Seventeenth Century
According to some documents, all the Thomas Christians except a few ( 400 or 500 or 4000) adhered to those who had taken the Coonan Cross Oath on Friday, January 3rd 1653.