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	Malankara Orthodox Syriac Church Indian Orthodox Church Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
		It was on April 29, 1991 at Parumala Seminary that he was installed and enthroned as Catholicos of the East.
		He is the sixth Catholicos in Malankara after the establishment of the Catholicate here in 1912.
		The Catholicos consecrates Bishops for the Orthodox Church of the East, presides over the Episcopal Synod, declares its decisions and implements them, conducts administration as the representative of the Synod and consecrates the Holy Mooron (Oil).
	www.orthodoxsyrianchurch.com /html/about_catholicos/ac.htm (341 words)

	Catholicos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This Catholicos of the East was known as Maphryānā (translated as Maphrian or Fructifier) in Syriac when non-Chalcedonians depended on Antioch after division in the Church of the East due to Nestorian schism.
		His Holiness, the Catholicos of All Armenians presides over the Supreme Spiritual Council (the Armenian Church's governing college of bishops), and is the head of the world's 7 million Armenian Apostolic Christians.
		Catholicos of the East is title borne by the head of the Indian Orthodox Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catholicos (361 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Indian Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The head of the Eastern church was the "Catholicos of the East" in the lineage of Apostle Thomas.
		In AD 1912, the Catholicate of the East was revived in India with the co-operation of Mar Abdul Messiah, the deposed Patriarch of Antioch, Mar Dionysius VI, the Metropolitan of the Indian Church, and the Bishops of the Church.
		Catholicos of the East is the title of the autonomous primate of the East whose succession is that of Saint Thomas the Apostle, and who has a spiritual primacy of honor over all churches of the East.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Indian-Orthodox-Church (3138 words)

	Thomas Mar Themothios who will be enthroned as Catholicos of the East
		The 91-year-old Catholicos was consecrated as bishop in 1953.
		The abdicated Catholicos was the sixth Catholicos of the East and 19th Malankara Metropolitan.
		His Holiness the Catholicos Baselios Marthoma Didymos I was enthroned as supreme head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian church on October 31 following the abdication of the throne by Catholicos Baselios Marthoma Mathews II due to ill health and old age.
	www.usmalayalee.com /news/thomas_mar_themothios.htm (1366 words)

	Catholicose
		Mar Ahoudemme was ordained a Bishop by Christophorus, the Catholicos of the Armenian Church.
		Elevated Catholicos of the East by Mar Yakub Burdana.
		Reduction of Catholicate of the East to "Maphriyan of the East"
	www.indianchristianity.org /orthodox/cath/catholicose.htm (3037 words)

	Early Christian Church in the East
		Not only did The Church of the East have to contend with Rome's anger over their unwillingness to accept pagan customs but it was met with hostility by other religions in their area.
		The king begged him by the memory of their personal friendship to yield, but the [catholico] remained firm, and on the morning of the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, in the year AD 339, along with five bishops and a hundred minor clergy, he sealed his testimony with his blood.
		True converts to the Church of the East were never lured by pomp and ceremony, nor by the rites that were practiced in Buddhism or Hinduism.
	www.tt.writtentreasures.org /part_2.html (7429 words)

	catholicos \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Catholicos (plural Catholicoi) is a title used by the head bishop of any of certain Eastern churches.
		However the historical evidences point to the fact that the office of the Catholicos of the East was founded in the early 5th century when the Persian Church declared its autonomy.
		Thus the Catholicos of the East became the head of the Persian church.
	www.babylon.com /definition/catholicos (166 words)

	Catholicate of the East
		'CATHOLICOS OF THE EAST' was originally the title conferred to the ecclesiastical head of the Christian congregation in the erstwhile Persian Empire that extended from Mesopotamia in the west, to the boundaries of the present day Afghanistan and Northern India in the east.
		The ‘Catholicos of Seleucia/East’ was the deputy of the Patriarch of Antioch with certain privileges including that of consecrating the Bishops on behalf of the Patriarch.
		The office of the ‘Maphrian of the East’ was founded to take care of the Syrian Orthodox faithful, living in the dioceses of the ancient territory of the Persian Sassanid Empire and who were under the Patriarchate of Antioch.
	www.catholicose.org /PauloseII/Catholicate.htm (3327 words)

	Malanakara Church
		To say, therefore, that the Catholicate is established to liberate the Eastern wing of the Church from the clutches of Antioch or that it is a symbol of independence or autonomy is contrary to facts and to historical developments in the Church.
		The Catholicate established by Adbul Mesiah was not that of the East nor it was shifted from Tigris.
		The late Catholicos in Malankara had taken the name Geevarghese II and if he would have been the Catholicos of the East he would not have been known as Geevarghese II since there were more persons bearing that name in the chain of succession of the Catholicos of the East.
	www.geocities.com /malankarav5/Malankara_Church.htm (2443 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Catholicos
		Owing to the political separation of the East from the West and to theological disputes, several attempts were made during the fifth century to secure
		In the fifth century the Armenians adopted Monophysitism and anathematized the Council of Chalcedon, 491.
		Catholicos of all Armenians" and at least theoretically, is considered the principal
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03454a.htm (523 words)

	INDIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH,LONDON
		The Catholicos with his seat at Seleucia Ctesiphon began to be called also Patriarch and in 486 A.D. The church officially accepted a resolution in its Synod to recognise Nestorius as a Saint and Church Father.
		The Catholicate of the East was thus established in Malankara, with the cooperation of the canonical Patriarch Abdul Messiah, who was senior to Mar Abdulla.
		The designation ‘Catholicos of the East' to the successors of St. Thomas the Apostle was given by the Jerusalem Synod of AD 231.
	www.indian-orthodox.co.uk /historical.htm (5260 words)

	H.B. Catholicos Mor Baselios Thomas I
		H.E. Mor Dionysius Thomas was elected as the Catholicos and the Metropolitan Trustee of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church at this historic Church Association.
		In the Syrian Orthodox Church hierarchy, the Catholicos is second in rank to the supreme spiritual head, the Patriarch of Antioch.
		On 31st July 2002, the Sunthroniso of Catholicos Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas I Bava was held at the Kothamangalam Marthoma Cheriapally.
	www.saintgregorios.org /PARUMALA/Catholicos_ThomasI.htm (1496 words)

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		In the initial stages of the growth of the Syrian Church of the East, it was self sustained.
		It is clear that they came from the jurisdiction of the Catholicos of the East.
		They were integral part of the Synod of the Catholicos until 1970's and even today a group of Knanaya remains as part of Catholicate of the East.
	www.castlecomputers.com /stthomasla/catholicose_history.htm (1144 words)

	East of the Euphrates: Early Christianity in Asia
		The Synod confirmed Mar Isaac as Catholicos and Archbishop of all the Orient.
		The chief defect of the system was that in future, the election of a Catholicos had to be approved by the king of Persia, which in practice meant that the office could only be filled by his nominee.
		From the fifth century on the impact of Theodore’s theology and approach on East Syrian theology was immense and the most important disciple of Theodore in Persia was Narsai, the head of the theological school in Nisibis.
	www.religion-online.org /showchapter.asp?title=1553&C=1367 (9840 words)

	Apostolic Succession 3
		In about the twelfth century, some of the Armenians began to contemplate union with Rome and the Catholicos was present as guest of honor at the Latin Council of Antioch in 1141 and later at the Council of Florence in 1439 when a formal union was proclaimed.
		East Syria, Assyria, Persia and Mesopotamia were evangelized by Saint Thomas assisted by Saint Addai, who was one of the Seventy Apostles sent by Christ (Luke 10:1) and one of their disciples Saint Mari.
		These were traditionally subject to the Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, but owing to difficulties of communication between them, the Patriarchal jurisdictional authority was delegated to the Metropolitan who was designated the “Catholicos of the East” which means “holder of all” and he was therefore the true Patriarch over it.
	www.angelfire.com /alt/scm/as3.html (3416 words)

	joel donnet News 82
		A few minutes before, the Catholicos of the East, the head of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, had been cheerfully greeted by the faithful on that November 2nd, the 97th birthday of the death of Mar Gregorios, the only saint of this Indian national Church whose body has been lying here in Parumala.
		The celebrations ended with a new mass said by the Catholicos and the bishops, who eventually blessed the faithful at the end of the service by holding a small golden or silvered cross, which was sometimes livened up with precious stones, on their forehead.
		All face East, as well as the sculpted wooden tombs of Saint Thomas and three catholicoses who are buried in the palace of Kottayam -for the Lord is said to be in the East.
	perso.orange.fr /joel.donnet/News82.htm (990 words)

	His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas in Kerala
		The function which was presided by the Catholicos Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas I, started with the welcome address by the Holy Episcopal Synod President Mor Gregorios Joseph followed by the presidential address of His Beatitude the Catholicos.
		Catholicos Mor Baselios Thomas I, who presided over the function, hoped that the construction of the new church would be completed soon.
		and all the East, Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iywas.
	www.suryoyo.uni-goettingen.de /news/apostolischerbesuchrinkerala.htm (6044 words)

	Indian Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Christians of this ancient tradition were and are known as either Nasranis or Syrian Christians.
		The Portuguese who colonized India in AD 1498 tried to convert the St. Thomas Christians to Catholicism.
		This was largely unsuccessful and ended in schism with the reformers founding the Mar Thoma Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_Orthodox_Church (979 words)

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		It is East Syrian in Origin due to it's association with the Persian Church from the third to the Fifteenth Century.
		The 'Catholicos of the East' was an ecclesiastical title given to the followers of St. Thomas by the Jerusalem Synod in 281 AD.
		The Orthodox 'Catholicos of the East' also assumes the additional title of 'Malankara Metropolitan' according to the outcome of the Election of the 'Malankara Association', the body in charge of such issues according to the 1934 constitution of the undivided Malankara Church.
	www.geocities.com /mgocsm_stjohns/patdiv.htm (582 words)

	News_View : : ChToday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		January 30 was marked by a valedictory function of the 'Navati festival' and special prayers and Mass were held at all the 1,200 and odd parish churches of the Malankara Orthodox Church throughout the world on that day.
		He was enthroned as the Catholicos of the East on April 29,1991.
		He is the 89th successor to the throne of St Thomas as Catholicos and the Sixth Catholicos in Malankara after the establishment of the Catholicate in 1912.
	in.christiantoday.com /textChtoday/news_view.htm?code=den&id=243 (267 words)

	History of Syriac texts and Syrian Christianity - Table 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mar Abha of Kashkar was succeeded by Sourin as catholicos of the east, [50].
		Ya`qob metropolitan of Gundi-Shapor was elected Ya`qob II Saba Brika catholicos of the east.
		This patriarch was elected in opposition to the patriarch of the Church of the East.
	www.srr.axbridge.org.uk /chron_tab7.html (11539 words)

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		The head of the Indian Orthodox Church is the Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan whose seat is at Kottayam, Kerala, India.
		The official title of the head of the Church is the "Catholicos of the East, Catholicos of the Apostolic throne of St. Thomas, and the Malankara Metropolitan".
		The present Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan is H.H. Mar Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I, who was enthroned on October 31, 2005 at Parumala Church by the Holy Synod amidst the Holy Eucharist.
	www.indianorthodoxchurch.co.uk /index.html (441 words)

	Catholicos Baselios Paulos II Puthussery (1914-1996)
		Mor Philoxenus was chosen to be the Catholicos of the faction owing allegiance to the Patriarch of Antioch at the church delegates meeting held at Thuruthusseri.
		On September 7, 1975, Patriarch Ya`qub III consecrated Mor Philoxenus as Catholicos of the East.
		The remains of Catholicos Mor Baselius Paulose II are interred in a tomb in Malekurishu Dayro near Puthenkurishu in Ernakulam District, Kerala.
	sor.cua.edu /Personage/Malankara/CPaulos2.html (648 words)

	Facts about saint thomas christians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Thomas Christians (called Nasrani--Nazarenes--in Hindu) are groups of Christians in India whose roots go to the Malabar coast (now Kerala) in the first century CE and the seven churches that are believed to have been established by St. Thomas.
		In the 4th century CE, a settlement of Jewish Christians was founded in Kottayam by Thomas Kynai at the behest of the Catholicos of the East.
		Thus, the East Syrian Church was Hindu in culture, Christian in religion and Syro-Oriental in worship.
	www.portaljuice.com /saint_thomas_christians.html (760 words)

	aceov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Church of the East developed first in what was known as the Parthian Empire, and when that empire was overthrown by the Persians in the third century it continued its development under the Persian government.
		The Church of the East is governed according to the Apostolic model of bishops, presbyters, and deacons.
		The Catholicos became the presiding bishop over the entire Church, and his dignity and power were subsequently added to in the fifth century when he received the title "Patriarch".
	www.cired.org /aceov.html (1296 words)

	Mar Eshai Shimun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		His Holiness Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII is the Catholicos Patriarch of the Church of the East.
		The official name of the Church of the East is the Holy Apostolic and Catholic Church of the East.
		He advised the Assyrians and members of the Church of the East all over the world to remain as loyal and faithful citizen of the states in which they lived.
	www.peshitta.org /initial/mareshai.html (1883 words)

	Kerala History - Christians of Kerala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The first Catholicos was Basaliose Poulose the I (September 14, 1912 to May 2, 1913) The second was Basliose Geeverghese I. (April 30, 1925 to December 17, 1928).
		The fourth Catholicos was Basaliose Ougen I (May 12, 1964 to December 8, 1975) and the fifth Basaliose Thomas Mathews I (October 27, 1975 to April 27, 1991).When Mathews Basaliose I retired sixth Catholicos Thomas Mathews II took office on April 29, 1991.
		Today there are again two divisions, the Orthodox Syrian Christians owing allegiance to the Catholicos of the East and the Jacobites Syrian Christians owing allegiance to the Patriarch of Antioch in Syria.
	www.ananthapuri.com /kerala-history.asp?page=christian (2256 words)

	St. Thomas Christian Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In time it was extended through missionary efforts of the apostles and their disciples to the major population and cultural centers both in the East and in the West.
		In the mid-fourth century, the Catholicos of the East, sent a bishop, priests and deacons into the area which still preserved Christianity in accordance with the teachings of St. Thomas.
		The Church of the East is a protector and guardian of the Truths taught by Jesus to the apostles, practiced by them and passed on to their successors in true and unaltered and written form.
	www.mindspring.com /~kabalah/origin.html (1176 words)

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