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6 unusual facts about Baselios Thomas I


Baselios Thomas I

The Catholicate office of Mor Baselios Thomas I functions at the Mor Ignatius Zakka I Centre in Puthencruz near Kochi, which is also the headquarters of the Syrian Orthodox Church in India.

Catholicos Baselios Thomas I was born in the Cheruvillil family of Vadayambadi in Puthencruz to Mathai and Kunjamma on July 22, 1929.

C.M. Thomas served as the vicar of St. Peter's church, Puthencruz from 1959 while also serving churches at Mookkannur, Vellathooval, Keezhumuri, St Peters & St Pauls Orthodox Church - Fort Cochin, Valamboor and later at Calcutta and Trichur.

Catholicos of India

In 2002 Baselios Thomas I was consecrated by Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas to be the local head of all Syriac Christians in India.

Kuriakose Mor Theophilos

He was ordained as Deacon by Mor Gregorios Geevarghese Metropolitan in 1989, as priest by the Catholicos of the East, Baselios Thomas I in 2002 and in 2003 he was ordained as metropolitan with the name Mor Theophilos.

Malankara Varghese Murder Case

On Oct 21, 2011 The CBI unit, Thiruvananthapuram quizzed Jacobite Syrian Church Catholicos Baselios Thomas I in connection with the murder case.



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