V. Ramkumar, J.

The appellants in this first appeal are the plaintiffs in the suit, O.S. No. 162 of 1977 on the file of the Church Court (I Addl. District Court, Ernakulam). The said suit was one filed by the Catholicos (Orthodox) faction of the Syrian Christians fora declaration that all religious worship and administration of the assets of the Ist plaintiff-plaint schedule church (St. Peters Orthodox Syrian Church, Puthencruz, together with the church building and cemetery comprised in Survey Nos. 390/3, 392/1/78, 392/1/77/2, 382/3B and 392/1/77 in Pannikuzhi Kara, Chemmanad Village, Kunnathunad Taluk) are to be carried on under the authority of the Catholicos and in accordance with the constitution of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and for a perpetual injunction restraining defendants 2 to 11, members of the Jacobite (Patriarch) faction of Syrian Christians from interfering with the religious worship or administration of the plaint schedule church or from obstructing the 2nd plaintiff (the Vicar) or the Catholicos from conducting worship or from carrying on th