The West Syriac Rite is used in the Syriac Orthodox Church based in Syria and its archbishopric in India known as Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, the Maronite Church based in Lebanon, the Syriac Catholic Church based in Lebanon, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church based in India, the Malabar Independent Syrian Church and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church based in India. A Reformed variant of the West Syriac Rite without intercession to saints and prayers for the departed, intercession with Mother Mary and other Protestant based revisions is used by the Mar Thoma Syrian Church, a Protestant Church in full communion with the Anglican Communion.