Syro-Malabar Church and Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, both branches of the Vatican-controlled Catholic Church in India are headed by a Major Archbishop and ratified by the Pope from the Vatican Administration. The Syrian Malankara Catholic Church was established on 20 September 1930 by Geevarghese Ivanios and submitted to the Pope. Pope Pius XI, through the Apostolic Constitution Christo Pastorum Principi of 11 June 1932, established the Syro-Malankara hierarchy in Kerala.
The list of the Oriental Catholic Churches controlled by the Pope from Vatican City.
Byzantine / Constantinopolitan Tradition
Albanian Greek-Catholic Church
Bielorussian Greek-Catholic Church
Bulgarian Greek-Catholic Church
Croatian Greek-Catholic Church (Kriลพevci)
Georgian Greek-Catholic Church
Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
Hungarian Greek-Catholic Church
Italo-Graeco-Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church
Melkite Greek-Catholic Church – Patriarchate
Romanian Greek-Catholic Church โ Major Archiepiscopal
Russian Greek-Catholic Church
Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church – Metropolitan
Slovak Greek-Catholic Church – Metropolitan
Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church โ Major Archiepiscopal
Armenian Tradition
Armenian Catholic Church – Patriarchate
Alexandrian Tradition
Coptic Catholic Church – Patriarchate
Ethiopian (& Eritrean) Catholic Church – Metropolitan
Antiochian Tradition
Syriac Catholic Church – Patriarchate
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church โ Major Archiepiscopal
Maronite Catholic Church – Patriarchate
Chaldean/Syro-Oriental Tradition
Chaldean Catholic Church – Patriarchate
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church โ Major Archiepiscopal
