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Howdy, Just saw this bit of news on the Vatican press releases this morning. Sorry, only available in Italian for the moment. Il Santo Padre ha elevato la Chiesa Metropolitana sui iuris Siro-Malankarese al grado di Chiesa Arcivescovile Maggiore ed ha promosso l'Ecc.mo Cyril Mar Baselios Malancharuvil, O.I.C., alla dignit� di Arcivescovo Maggiore di Trivandrum dei Siro-Malankaresi.
S.E. Mons. Cyril Mar Baselios Malancharuvil, O.I.C.
� nato a Ullannor, Pandalam, nell'Arcieparchia metropolitana di Trivandrum, il 16 agosto 1935.
Nel 1951 � entrato nell'Ordine dell'Imitazione di Cristo. Ha compiuto gli studi ecclesiastici superiori al Pontificio Ateneo di Poona, ove ha ottenuto la licenza in Filosofia e Teologia.
� stato ordinato sacerdote a Poona il 4 ottobre 1960.
Nel 1961 � stato inviato a Roma ove si � laureato in Diritto Canonico presso la Pontificia Universit� Gregoriana.
Ritornato in Patria, � stato professore di Teologia nel Seminario Regionale di S. Tommaso di Kottayam e nel Pontificio Seminario Interrituale di Alwaye.
Nel 1970 si � recato brevemente negli Stati Uniti, ove ha conseguito il "Master's Degree" in Psicologia all'Universit� di St. John di New York.
� stato Consultore della Pontificia Commissione per la Revisione del Codice di Diritto Canonico Orientale.
Il 24 aprile 1974 � stato eletto Superiore Generale dell'Ordine dell'Imitazione di Cristo.
Il 28 ottobre 1978 � stato eletto primo Vescovo di Battery dei Siro-Malankaresi ed � stato ordinato il 28 dicembre dello stesso anno.
Il 6 novembre 1995 � stato nominato Arcivescovo Metropolita di Trivandrum dei Siro-Malankaresi.
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Originally posted by DavidC:
Il Santo Padre ha elevato la Chiesa Metropolitana sui iuris Siro-Malankarese al grado di Chiesa Arcivescovile Maggiore ed ha promosso l�Ecc.mo Cyril Mar Baselios Malancharuvil, O.I.C., alla dignit� di Arcivescovo Maggiore di Trivandrum dei Siro-Malankaresi.
S.E. Mons. Cyril Mar Baselios Malancharuvil, O.I.C. Axios! Axios! Axios! May God grant many years to His Excellency, Major-Archbishop Cyril Mar Basilios. Eis polla aeti Despota! Congratulations to our brothers and sisters of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church on the elevation of their Church from the status of a Metropolitan Church sui iuris to that of a Major-Archepiscopal Church sui iuris. Thanks for the early news, David.
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Congratulations to our Syro-Malankar brothers and many years to Archbishop Cyril Mar Baselios!
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Dear DavidC:
Thanks for the update!
If "tradition" counts, the Major Archbishop will be up for the cardinalate. He is a Past President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India.
Amado
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Just as a side comment, I noticed recently that the Indian Bishop's Conference site referred to the Major-Archbishop of the Syro-Malabarese as "Archbishop Patriarch". It was in a discussion of the country's hierarchical structure, as I recollect (they've obviously been reading Ukrainian sites  ). Many years, Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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I believe both the Syro-Malankar's and Syro-Malabar's (as was the Ukrainian's) original petition was to be raised to patriarchal status.
After much reflection upon reading Archbishop Elias Zoghby's A Voice from the Byzantine East I think perhaps we have put too much stock in the title of patriarchate. By this I mean we should be more concerned with the actual form of governance and less with the title.
Among the Orthodox the chief hierarch of an autocephalous Church may be a patriarch, archbishop, or metropolitan and there is no distinction of powers among these simply precedence of honor. It is my belief we should seek to end the artificial distinctions the CCEO makes between metropolitan, major archepiscopal, and patriarchal churches. All autonomous Eastern Catholic Churches should have the same powers of governance and relation to the See of Peter.
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In English:
10-February-2005 -- Vatican Information Service
PONTIFICAL ACTS
VATICAN CITY, FEB 10, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father elevated the "sui iuris" Metropolitan Church of the Syro-Malankars to the rank of Major Archiepiscopal Church, and he promoted Metropolitan Archbishop Cyril Mar Baselios Malancharuvil O.I.C. of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankars, India, to the dignity of major archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankars. The new metropolitan archbishop was born in Ullannor, India, in 1935, and ordained a priest in 1960. He was ordained a bishop in 1978 and appointed as metropolitan archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankars in 1995. The Syro-Malankara Church has around 450,000 faithful divided in five eparchies and served by 632 priests, of whom 511 are eparchial and 121 religious. A total of 643 seminarians study in five seminaries, and there are over 2,030 female religious in 17 communities The Church also has 22 ecclesiastical institutions, 449 educational centers (schools, universities, etc.), and 466 charitable institutes.
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I rejoice with them!
Much Love,
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Dear Father Deacon Lance, You are right - so what if there is a patriarchate if it is under Rome's thumb? What is positive about the UGCC current situation is that we seem to be mostly united around our patriarch in calling him such and deferring to him in most jurisdictional issues, if not all. However it happened, we've never had such unity as an EC Church. And, by the way, Cardinal Walter Kasper's spoken Russian is really, as they say, Kharashov!  Alex
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Photo of Major-Archbishop & Catholicos Cyril Mar Basilios and some remarks Syro-Malankara Church Webpage [ malankara.net] . It appears from the last photo that His Excellency was overcome with emotion.
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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