Supreme head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church passes away

Baselios Mar Thoma Poulose II, Catholicos of the East and supreme head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC), handed away early on Monday after a chronic sickness. He was 74.

According to the church authorities, the Catholicos breathed his final at 2.35 a.m at a personal hospital in Pathanamthitta. The Catholicos, who had been present process remedy for lung most cancers since December 2019, examined optimistic for COVID-19 in February this 12 months.

Though he recovered from the virus an infection, the submit COVID-19 lung problems worsened the well being situation, hospital authority knowledgeable.

The mortal stays shall be stored for a public exhibition at the Parumala church until 7 p.m. on Monday and the funeral shall be held at the MOSC headquarters at Devalokam, Kottayam, by 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II, who was the eighth Catholicos of the East in Malankara and 91st primate on the Apostolic Throne of St. Thomas, was enthroned as the Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan in November 2010. Born on August 30, 1946 as KI Paul to the Kollannur KI Iype-Kunjeetta couple in Kunnamkulam, the Catholicos pursued his submit commencement from the CMS faculty in Kottayam

He was ordained as a deacon in 1972 and was awarded the episcopal title of Poulose Mar Milithios on May 15, 1985. Having appointed as the Metropolitan of the Kunnamkulam Diocese in August 1985, he was elected as Catholicos designate in October 2006.

Based on a suggestion by the Catholicos a pair of months in the past, an episcopal synod of the MOSC in April has already advisable to kick begin the proceedings for choosing the successor to him. The Malankara Association — an apex physique comprising monks and laity representatives from all parishes beneath the MOSC — shall be convened at Parumala on October 14.