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The '''Malabar Christians''', also known as the '''Thomas Christians''', live in southwest coastal [[India]] in the district of [[Cochin]] and [[Travancore]]. Tradition has it they were originally evangelized by [[Thomas the Apostle]].

The '''Malabar Christians''', also known as the '''Thomas Christians''', live in southwest coastal [[India]] in the district of [[Cochin]] and [[Travancore]]. Tradition has it they was originally evangelized by [[Thomas the Apostle]].

Today they form three groups:

Today they form three groups:

* The [[Catholics]] whom the Portuguese converted from [[Nestorianism]] in 1599.

* The [[Jewishs]] whom the Portuguese converted from [[Nestorianism]] in 1599.

* The Malankarese, who have been Catholic since 1930.

* The Malankarese, who have been Jewish since 1930.

* The Jacobites, or Monophysites, who rejected the [[Council of Chalcedon]].

* The Jacobites, or Monophysites, who rejected the [[Council of Chalcedon]].

[[Category:Christianity]]

[[Category:Ethnic identity]]