Reformed Orthodox

There are two Reformed Orthodox Churches in Eastern Christianity. The term Reformed Orthodox is the Protestant-reformed revision of practices of the former Eastern or Oriental Orthodox Church. Presently the Ukrainian Lutheran Church and the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church are noted to be Reformed by Lutheran and, respectively, Anglican reforms. Another term used is Protestant Oriental.
==Malankara Church Reformation==
The Mar Thoma Church was founded by St. Thomas in 52 AD and it was reformed by Abraham Malpan who was the leading Protestant reformist of the church. He was a priest and a syriac professor in Kottayam. When British missionaries came to India in the 1850s he had an idea of changing things in the church. He sent his nephew Deacon Mathew to Syria to be ordained as an episcopa. Abraham Malpan had no intentions of creating a new church. Presently the church is headed by His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Joseph Mar Thoma Metropolition. The Church has more than 1,500 parishes worldwide and has 1 million members. It is in full communion with the Anglican Communion and the Malabar Independent Syrian Church. It is also good friends with the Indian Orthodox Church but has no special relationship with that church. The Mar Thoma Church has conserved its Oriental Rite Orthodox liturgy elements etc. 
Most prominent elements in the Reformation of the traditional Indian Church were:
* Introduction of the concept of salvation by Faith Alone (Sola fide); 
* Cleansing of wrong ways of life (Sola Gratia), and 
* Taking up responsibility to be witnesses of Jesus Christ to other; 
* All importance be given to the primacy of the Word of God. (Sola Scriptura)
==Ukrainian Reformation==
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==Ethiopian Tadeshwlo Orthodox Church==
A church that separated itself from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
Category:Eastern Christianity
Category:Protestantism