page_title: Holy Qurbana
section_title: West Syriac traditions
hierarchical_section_title: Holy Qurbana / West Syriac traditions
caption_attribution_description: English: Syro-Malankara Holy Mass, India. Deutsch: Syro-Malankarische Messe, Indien.
context_page_description: The Holy Qurbana or Holy Qurbono, refers to the Eucharist as celebrated in Syriac Christianity. This includes various Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches. Syriac Christianity consists of two liturgical rites, the East Syriac Rite and the West Syriac Rite. The main Anaphora of the East Syriac tradition is the Holy Qurbana of Saints Addai and Mari, while that of the West Syriac tradition is the Divine Liturgy of Saint James.
  The churches are primarily based in the Middle East, Africa, and India. The East Syriac Rite is used in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church based in India, the Chaldean Catholic Church based in Iraq, and in the Assyrian Church of the East based in Iraq. The Assyrian Church of the East is not in official communion with the Orthodox churches, and they are not a part of the Eastern Catholic churches.
  The West Syriac Rite is used in the Syriac Orthodox Church based in Syria, the Maronite Catholic Church based in Lebanon, the Syriac Catholic Church based in Lebanon, the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church based in India, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church based in India, and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church based in India.
context_section_description: West Syriac liturgical rite is developed out of the ancient Antiochene Rite of the Patriarchate of Antioch, adapting the old Greek liturgy into Syriac, the language of the Syrian countryside.
  West Syriac liturgies represent one of the major strains in Syriac Christianity, the other being the East Syriac Rite, the liturgy of the Church of the East and its descendants. Distinct West Syriac liturgies developed following the Council of Chalcedon, which largely divided the Christian community in Antioch into Melkites, who supported the Emperor and the Council and adopted the Byzantine Rite, and the non-Chalcedonians, who rejected the council and developed an independent liturgy – the West Syriac Rite. An independent West Syriac community that grew around the monastery of Saint Maron eventually developed into the Maronite Church. A variant of the West Syriac Rite, the Malankara Rite, developed in the ancient Malankara Church of India and is still used in its descendant churches. They are the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, and the Malabar Independent Syrian Church.
caption: An Eastern Catholic Cardinal of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church celebrating Holy Qurbono in West Syriac
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