"JOINT COMMISSION BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE MALANKARA ORTHODOX SYRIAN CHURCH*"

* (Autocephalous since 1975 under Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Mathews II)

SPONSORS:

The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church

Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
formerly Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity
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1. October 22-25, 1989 - Kottayam, India
   "Mystery of the Incarnate Word; Christology; Mixed Marriages" - JOINT STATEMENT
   
   June 3, 1990 - DOCTRINAL AGREEMENT ON CHRISTOLOGY
   
   
2. December 9-12, 1990 - Kottayam, India
   "Ecclesial Communion; Sacramental Mysteries; Marriage; Eucharistic Communion" - INTERIM REPORT ON MARRIAGE and INTERIM REPORT ON EUCHARISTIC COMMUNION
3. December 10-12, 1991 - Kottayam, India
   "Role of the Episcopate in the Unity of the Church"
4. December 8-12, 1992 - Kottayam, India
   "Function of the Episcopate in Assuring the Unity of the Church; History of the Church in Kerala"
5. November 15-18, 1993 - Kottayam, India
   "Episcopate's Function as a Guarantee of Church Unity; Local Church; Structure and Synodical Practices; Autonomy and Autocephaly; Koinônia; History of the Church in Kerala; Life and Ministry of the Church in South India; Mixed Marriage; Common Witness of the Church in Kerala" (work done in sub-commissions)
6. December 5-8, 1994 - Kottayam, India
   "Episcopate's Function as a Guarantee of Church Unity; Synodical Structures; Koinônia; History of the Church in Kerala; Life and Ministry of the Church in South India; Mixed Marriage; Common Witness of the Church in Kerala" (work done in sub-commissions)
7. October 9-14, 1995 - Kottayam, India
   
8. November 18-22, 1996 - Manganam, India
   "History of Pre-Portuguese Christianity in India; Conciliar Dimensions of Authority and Dimenisions of Eucharistic Communion"
9. November 10-14, 1997 - Kottayam, India
   "The Synod of Diamper; Collegiality and Primacies; Mixed Marriages; Common Witness"
10. October 26-30, 1998 - Manganam, India
    "The Synod of Diamper; Biblical and Ecclesiological Significance of Apostolic Authority; Mixed Marriage: Joint Pastoral Projects"
11. October 25-19, 1999 - Kottayam, India
    "Mixed Marriage; Notion of Communion and its Ecclesiological Implications; common Witness; Preparation of the Publication of the Major Papers" - JOINT STATEMENT ON THE SYNOD OF DIAMPER (A.D. 1599)
12. September 26-30, 2000 - Kottayam, India
    "Ecclesial Unity: An East Syrian Perspective; Reflections on Ecclesial Unity in the Light of the Syrian Liturgical Tradition; Local Traditions both Oral and Written in Relation to the Coonen Cross Oath (1653); Common Witness; Inter-Church Marriage"
13. October 17-19, 2001 - Kottayam, India
    "‘Hierarchical Communion' according to the Canonical Sources of the Syrian Tradition; Historical Development in Kerala during the 17th century, after the Coonan Cross Oath; Archival Sources Regarding the 16th and 17th Century History in Kerala"
14. October 16-18, 2002 - Kottayam, India
    "Concept of Communion–Relating Local Church and the Universal Church; Church History: the Coonan Cross Oath and Subsequent Events; Common Witness: Pastoral Questions on Mixed Marriage"
    
15. October 15-17, 2003 - Kottayam, India
    "Concept of Communion and the Concept of Primacy; Church History: Developments of the Liturgical Tradition of the St. Thomas Christians; Common Witness: the 1950th Anniversary of the Arrival of St. Thomas in India"
16. October 13-14, 2004 - Kottayam, India
    “The Liturgical tradition of the St. Thomas Christians till the 19th century; Petrine primacy in the first four centuries; mixed marriages; repercussions of the new dialogue between the Catholic church and the Oriental Orthodox churches; common witness”
17. December 7-9, 2005 - Kottayam, India
    “Unity of St. Thomas Christians; Historical and canonical perspectives on Primacy in the Syro-Malabar Church; practical matters concerning ecumenical relations”
18. September 13-15, 2006 - Kottayam, India
    “Liturgical tradition of the St. Thomas Christians; Church unity; pastoral projects”
19. October 23-24, 2007 - Kottayam, India
    “Patristic and Liturgical Reflections Regarding Primacy in the Church, up to the 17th Century; The Liturgical Tradition of the St. Thomas Christians from 1659 till the 19th Century; The Liturgical Traditions of the St. Thomas Christians between 1599 and 1900; Bio-ethical Issues as They Emerge in the Present Day; Revised proposed statement regarding mixed marriages”
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CO-CHAIRMEN:

Bishop Pierre Duprey (1990-1998)
Secretary, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Bishop Walter Kasper (1999-2000)
Secretary, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Bishop Marc Ouellet (2000-2002)
Secretary, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Bishop Brian Farrell, lc (2003-)
Secretary, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Archbishop Mar Joseph Powathil (acting co-chair 2006)

Paulos Mar Gregorios (1990-1996)
Metropolitan, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church

Philipos Mar Eusebios (in 1993, 1997-)
Metropolitan, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church

Bishop Yuhanan Mar Chrysostom (acting co-chiar 2006)

CO-SECRETARIES:

Msgr. Gérard Daucourt (1990)
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Rev. Bernard Dubasque (1991-1996)
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Msgr. Johan Bonny (1996-2008)
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Rev. Dr. John Mathews (1991-)
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church

 
 
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