List of Malankara Metropolitans

Malankara Metropolitan is a title formerly given to the head of the Malankara Church by the Government of Travancore and the Kingdom of Cochin in South India.

The Malankara Metropolitan is the head of the Malankara Church, the custodian of the Old Seminary, Kottayam and the Trustee for the Vattipanam (Trust Fund).

Among them the head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church was affirmed by the Supreme court of India as the Malankara Metropolitan in the verdict pertaining to the asset dispute with the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church.

[1] Baselios Marthoma Mathews III became Malankara Metropolitan in 2021.

In 2024, the Patriarch of Antioch consecrated Gregorios Joseph as the Malankara Metropolitan of the Syriac Orthodox Church, the authenticity and legality of which, is disputed.