Jacobite

A Jacobite is a follower of someone named Jacob or James, from the Latin Iācōbus. Jacobite or Jacobitism may refer to:

==Religion== Jacobites, followers of Saint Jacob Baradaeus (died 578). Churches in the Jacobite tradition and sometimes called Jacobite include: Syriac Orthodox Church, sometimes colloquially known as the Jacobite Church Malankara Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, autonomous branch of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Kerala, India Jacobite, follower of Henry Jacob (1563–1624), English clergyman Jacobites, Biblical name for descendants of Jacob