Philipose Mar Christostm, Metropolitan Emeritus no more
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He was thought to be the world’s longest serving bishop who served for about 68 years.
Dr.Philipose Mar Christostm, Metropolitan Emeritus of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian church , handed away on Wednesday. He was 104.
Official sources stated the Metropolitan Emeritus was ailing for some time and handed away at a personal hospital in Kumaband round 1.15 a.m. The funeral will probably be held on Thursday.
Regarded because the world’s longest serving bishop who served for about 68 years, he was known as the person with the golden tounge and was well-known for his heat friendship with individuals chopping throughout religions, and his no-holds-barred humor sense. The senior metropolitan was awarded with the nation’s highest civilian honour of Padma Bhushan in 2018.
Born because the son of a vicar basic K.E. Oommen Kaseessa and Sosamma on on April 27, 1918 in Kumbanad, Mar Chrysotom had his early training from Kozhencherry High School and St. John’s High School, Eraviperoor.
He then pursued his larger research at Union Christian College, Aluva and have become a member of the Ankola Ashram in 1940. He joined United Theological College, Bengaluru in 1943 for his priesthood research and was ordained as deacon in 1944 and later as an episcopa. He was awarded the title Philipose Mar Chrysostom in 1953.
Going steadily up the hierarchy of the Mar Thoma Church within the subsequent years, Mar Chrysostom was designated as Suffragan Metropolitan in 1978. He was designated because the Officiating Metropolitan of the Church in March 1999 and was put in because the twentieth Metropolitan of Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church on October 23, 1999.
The Metropolitan had handed over his administrative tasks to his successor, the late Joseph Mar Thoma Metropolitan, in October 2007 and had since been staying on the Maramon Aramana (Jubilee Home).
CM, opposition chief condole Bishop’s passing
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan stated the previous head of the Malankara Marthoma Syrian Church had used the bishopric to raised peoples’ lives.
“He was with the people in their times of pain and distress. The spiritual leader was progressive in outlook and humanist in nature. The Bishop had used his long life for the betterment of society. His refined sense of humour brightened Kerala’s cultural life,” Mr. Vijayan stated.
Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala, former Chief Minister Oomen Chandy, Congress Working Committee member A.K. Antony, KPCC president Mullapally Ramachandran, CPI State secretary Kanam Rajendran and NSS basic secretary G. Sukumaran Nair grieved the Bishop’s passing. More messages of commiseration are coming in from throughout the State and nation.
We share the sorrow: Mar Antony Kariyil
Philipose Mar Chrysastom, Valiya Metropolitan was a father for all and never solely of the Marthoma church, stated Metropolitan Vicar Mar Antony Kariyil of the Syro-Malabar Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly.
Mar Kariyil additionally stated that the Valiya Metropolitan was the guru to the world on the best of humanity. His life was an instance for all and he had fought to unite the church. His life and instance received him respect and love from all individuals within the society with out the limitations of faith and caste and “we share the sorrow experienced by the Marthoma Church on the passing away” of the Valiya Metropolitan, he added.
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