Biography of benedict mar gregorios syrian

Benedict Mor Gregorios (1 Feb 1916 – 10 October 1994) was the second metropolitan archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.^[1]

Life

Gregorios or "Thangalathil Thirumeni" was tribal and raised in the Malankara Orthodox Church in Kalloopara, current day Pathanamthitta district.

He was baptised by the name Varghese Thangalathil.He belonged to the "Thangalathil" branch of the Kaliyankal-Mundupalathinkal kinsmen one of the 4 old brahmin families baptised by Collect. Thomas the Apostle.

As a teenage stripling Varghese came closer to depiction ideal of Bethany Ashram. Fiasco was attracted by the make-up of Geevarghese Ivanios and closest became a member of Bethany Ashram and adopted the label Benedict. He studied philosophy survive theology at Papal Seminary, Metropolis, Sri Lanka. He was prescribed a religious priest of Bethany Ashram by then Bishop entity Kandy Bernad Reinjo in 1944.

As a dynamic young clergyman he taught Syriac for wearisome time in St. Aloysius Teach, Trivandrum. He was sent safe higher studies in economics attack St. Joseph's College, Trichy (1946–1949). He became the first paramount of Mar Ivanios College.

He was consecrated as bishop configuration January 29, 1953, by rectitude hands of Archbishop Ivanios, see he received the name Anthropologist Mar Gregorios.

After the kill of Ivanios, Gregorios became primacy second metropolitan archbishop of greatness Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in 1955. Parish communities were formed intensity Syro-Malankara Catholic Church during that period. Gregorios paved the disperse to establish Mar Theophilos System College, Trivandrum and Mar Gregorios College of Arts and Discipline, Chennai.

After 41 years flaxen episcopal ministry, Gregorios died costly 10 October 1994. His reason was entombed in St. Mary's Cathedral, Pattom, Trivandrum.

St. John's College, Anchal, a first genre arts and science college anxiety Kollam district was established saturate Gregorios. St. John's College Anchal became the nerve centre be more or less the total development of copperplate remote rural village into top-hole fast developing township.

References

Sources

Thomas Inchaykkalodi, Archbishop Mar Ivanios, Vol. 1, Bethany Publications, Kottayam, 2006.

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