Catholicos of India
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The Catholicos of India[2][3] also known as the Catholicos of the East,[4] is an ecclesiastical office within the Syriac Orthodox Church. He is the Catholicos, spiritual leader and regional head[5][1] of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, an Indian archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church, functioning within the Church at an ecclesiastical-rank second to the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch,[4] and his name is commemorated in liturgy throughout the Syriac Orthodox Archdioceses in India. The position was renamed as Catholicos of India[3] in 2002, in accordance with its actual jurisdiction.[6]
Catholicos of India | |
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Bishopric | |
Syriac Orthodox Church | |
Incumbent: Baselios Thomas I 26 July 2002 | |
Style | Aboon Mor His Beatitude the Catholicos |
Location | |
Country | India |
Headquarters | Patriarch Ignatius Zaka I Iwas Centre, Kerala, India |
Information | |
Denomination | Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church |
Sui iuris church | Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church |
Rite | Antiochene Syriac Rite |
Established | Syriac Orthodox Church (1964) |
Diocese | Catholicate See[1] Jacobite Syrian Christian Church |
Cathedral | Mar Athanasius Cathedral |
Patron father | Saint Thomas |
Current leadership | |
Coadjutor | Malankara Metropolitan Joseph Gregorios |
Website | |
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The current Catholicos of India is Baselios Thomas I, who was consecrated in 2002.[7]