St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute (SEERI) is a centre for Syriac studies located in Kottayam, Kerala.
SEERI was developed to be a place for the advanced teaching and learning of the Syriac language and heritage in India, as well as making available manuscripts, documents, and source books necessary for such study and research.
[2] SEERI's first doctoral dissertation, The History of the Assyrian Church of the East in the Twentieth Century, was completed by Mar Aprem Mooken in 2000.
[4] SEERI is a research center of the Mahatma Gandhi and affiliated with the Catholic University of America.
[5] The President is Thomas Mor Koorilos, Metropolitan Archbishop of Tiruvalla.