Welcome to St. Mary's Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church,located in San Francisco Bay Area, California. The church service is held at the Milpitas Adventist Center located at 1991 Landess Ave, Milpitas, CA 95035. We welcome you to visit the church and join us in worship services. The mass is celebrated according to the ancient traditions of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Malayalam-Syriac-English languages.

The Syrian Orthodox Church is one of the oldest orthodox churches. It is believed that St. Peter the Apostle established a bishopric in Antioch and became the first bishop.

The See of Antioch continues to flourish till our day, with His Holiness Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I, being the current patriarch. The Patriarchate office is situated in Bab Touma, in the city of Damascus, capital of Syria. The Patriarch resides at the Mor Ephrem monastery in Ma`arat Sayyidnaya, near Damascus. The church has believers all over the world especially in the middle east(Syria, Iraq, Lebanon etc) and India.

The Syriac Orthodox Church has been a member of the World Council of Churches since 1960, and is one of the founding members of the Middle East Council of Churches. The Church takes part in ecumenical and theological dialogues with other churches. As a result of these dialogues, the Church has issued two joint declarations with the Roman Catholic Church and another with the Eastern Orthodox churches.