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His Beatitude Catholicose Basileus Paulose II was born on June 12, 1914 to the Vicar of Cherai St. Mary's church, Kasheesho Puthusseri Joseph and Elizabeth . He was named P. J. Paulose.and completed his secondary education at Cherai Ramavarma High School. After completing college education at Kottayam CMS College and Alwaye Union Christian College, Paulose joined the Manjinikkara Deiro. Paulose continued his Syriac education under Rabban Abdul Ahad (later Patriarch Yaqub III). For the district with the same name, see Kottayam District. ...
Aluva (Alwaye) is city north of Kochi in Ernakulam district of Kerala state in South India. ...
Syriac is an Eastern Aramaic language that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. ...
In 1934, Mor Yulius Elias, the delegate of the Patriarch to Malankara, ordained Paulose as deacon. In 1938, Mor Yulius ordained him priest at Manjinikkara Deiro.Later Fr. Paulose became secretary to Mor Yulius Elias and malphono at Manjinikkara Deiro.
On April 25, 1952, the Kandanad diocesan delegates meeting selected Kasheesho Paulose to succeed late Paulose Mor Athanasios who had relinquished his additional duties as the metropolitan of Kandanad due to illness. Patriarch Aphrem I ordained Kasheesho P. J. Paulose with the name Mor Philoxenus on October 19th, 1952 at Homs, Syria.
. On September 7, 1975, Patriarch Yakub III consecrated Mor Philoxenus as Catholicos of the East. On September 14, 1980, His Beatitude made history consecrating Mor Ignatios Zakka I Iwas, Archbishop of Baghdad, as the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch; this was the first time in the long history of the Patriarchate of Antioch that a Catholicose from Malankara officiated at the consecration of a Patriarch. His Beatitude also ordained six bishops for the Malankara church. . Mor Basileus Paulose II was widely revered for his simple mind and his spartan ascetic life. He conducted himself as a spiritual father to all without ever displaying the pomp that accompanied his office. Even in his private conversations he would dwell on his accountability on the Day of Judgment. As metropolitan and later as Catholicose, Mor Baselious desired for a lasting peace in the Malankara church.The remains of Catholicose Basileus Paulose II are interred in a tomb in Malekuishu Deiro near Puthenkurishu in Ernakulam District, Kerala This article describes different viewpoints about the history and tradition associated with the ecclesiastical position called Catholicos of the East, a title used by Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches to denote the head of a Church or a dignitary of the highest order. ...
HH Mor Ignatios Zakka I Iwas HH Mor Ignatios Zakka I Iwas became head of the Syrian Orthodox Church in 1980, holding the title Patriarch of Antioch. ...
The Patriarch of Antioch is the head of the Syriac Orthodox Church. ...
Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. ...
For the district with the same name, see Ernakulam District. ...
Kerala ((?); Malayalam: കേരളം — ) is a state on the tropical Malabar Coast of southwestern India. ...
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The Patriarch of Antioch is the head of the Syriac Orthodox Church. ...
The Syriac Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church based in the Middle East with members spread throughout the world. ...
The Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church, or sometimes called Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, an Orthodox church in Malankara (Kerala) is a branch and an integral part of the Syriac Orthodox Church with the Patriarch of Antioch, His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas as its supreme head. ...
Syriac Christianity is a culturally and linguistically distinctive community within Eastern Christianity. ...
The Saint Thomas Christians are a group of Christians from the Malabar coast (now Kerala) in South India, who follow Syriac Christianity. ...
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