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His Holiness The Malankara
Metropolitan and Catholicos Baselios Marthoma Didymus 1
thereafter declared elected Mar Militheos as Catholicos-designate who would be the successor to
the throne of St. Thomas as Catholicos of the East and
Malankara Metropolitan.
The Catholicos and
Metropolitans of the Church were received to the meeting venue
in a ceremonial procession from Parumala church at 1 p.m. The
Malankara Metropolitan, who is also the president of the
Malankara Syrian Christian Association, presided over the
meeting. Church secretary Alexander Karackal welcomed the
gathering.
The Catholicos-elect sought the blessings of the Catholicos soon
after his elections. H.B.Mar Militheos was felicitated at a
public meeting held on the Parumala seminary premises later. The
Mar Thoma Metropolitan Philipose Mar Chrysostum inaugurated the
meeting. The Catholicos presided. Nair Service Society general
secretary P.K. Narayana Panicker; Archbishop of Changanassery (Syro-Malabar
Church) Mar Joseph Powathil; Pro Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma
Gandhi University K.P. Younuskutty; Geevarghese Mar Osthathios,
senior metropolitan of the Church; Dr. Alexander Karackal; Fr.
O. Thomas, clergy trustee of the Church; P.C. Abraham
Padinjarekkara, lay trustee; addressed the meeting.
The Association resolved to increase the strength of the
managing committee of the Church in view of the creation of new
dioceses.
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