The Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Christian Church,[7][8][9][10] also known as the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Christian Church,[11][12][13][14][15] the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church,[16] or the Syriac Orthodox Church of India,[17][18][19] is an autonomous Oriental Orthodox church based in the Indian state of Kerala, and is an integral branch of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch. It recognizes the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, Ignatius Aphrem II seated in the Cathedral of Saint George, Bab Tuma, Damascus, Syria, as its Supreme Head.