Pope Francis promulgated two almost parallel Apostolic Letters, one for the Latin Church (Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus), the other for the Eastern Churches (Mitis et Misericors Iesus) on 15 September 2015 and they came into effect on 8 December 2015. These two Apostolic Letters were promulgated in direct response to the call by the 2014 Synod of Bishops to revise the canons on procedural norms governing marriage nullity process. The article res the impact the motu proprio Mitis et Misericors Iesus has created on the Syro-Malabar Church in terms of increase in the marriage nullity cases registered and the number of cases resolved as per the statistical data supplied by the tribunals of the Syro-Malabar Church. The article begins with a short appraisal of the current situation of the Syro-Malabar
Church in its historical perspective and gives a critical evaluation on the newly introduced structure based both on personal study and shared concerns of other canonists.