[Claud]

I got a question for SOLDIER (and NYer if you know too, since this is connected with the Antiochene Church)...what Rite do Indian Catholics use? The Syro-Malabar or Malankara Rite or the Latin Rite, or both?

I know the former rites were suppressed in the 1600s or whenever, but what is their status now?

[NYer]

what Rite do Indian Catholics use? The Syro-Malabar or Malankara Rite or the Latin Rite, or both?

While I have never attended a Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, the following seems to give a very detailed description of the rite used in their churches. It is written by a priest and was published in the Catholic Herald.

Syro-Malabar Rite

Holy Mass

OFFICIAL WEB SITE - Syro Malabar Catholic Church

Attention x5452 - here is another Eastern Catholic Church where the bishop wears a Roman mitre.

[Cronos]

what Rite do Indian Catholics use? The Syro-Malabar or Malankara Rite or the Latin Rite, or both?

Actually they use all 3 -- Christianity arrived in india with St. Thomas the Apostle in Kerala. Then, the were under the Syriac rite. When the Portuguese came in, vast numbers became Catholic -- and these (mostly from Goa or Maharashtra) are Latin Rite. The Keralites are primarily Syriac rites.