Orthodox Church will get new laity and clergy trustees

A gathering of Malankara Syrian Christian Affiliation held at Pathanamapuram on Thursday elected Ronnie Varghese Abraham as new lay trustee and Thomas Varghese Amayil as clergy trustee of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.

Whereas Fr.Thomas Varghese defeated M.O.John, Mr.Abraham defeated C A. George Mathai Nooranalil. As many as 4,203 members, together with 1,381 monks, attended the occasion.

The affiliation assembly formally started with particular prayers on the Mount Tabore Dayara right here within the morning. Later, Baselios Marthoma Mathews III, Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan, was accorded a reception to the venue. The Catholicos was adopted by different Metropolitans and members of the outgoing managing committee.

Calling the assembly into order, the Catholicos urged the members to assist victims of pure calamities and to transform the barren locations of the church’s ashrams and establishments into agricultural farms. The Catholicos additionally prolonged needs of the church to Draupadi Murmu who was elected because the President of India on the event of the seventy fifth anniversary of Independence.

This was adopted by structure of a of 141-member Malankara Affiliation Managing Committee, which comprised 47 monks and 94 laity nominated from the varied dioceses below the church. The managing committee is the best decision-making physique of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church.