Browsing: Catholicos Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas I

Source: Metro Vaartha He was 95. According to the Syrian Church authorities, the Catholicos, who was undergoing treatment for age-related ailments for a long time, passed away at 5.21 PM. He had led the church’s followers through a period of turmoil after a Supreme Court ruling stripped the Jacobite faction of control over its churches. Amidst the dispute between the Jacobite and Orthodox factions of the Malankara Church, he led the former’s faction after they lost the control of their churches and properties following the 2017 SC verdict. The apex Court ruled that the 1,100 parishes and their churches under…