Catholicos of India
The Catholicos of India also known as the Catholicos of the East, is an ecclesiastical office within the Syriac Orthodox Church. He is the Catholicos, spiritual leader and regional head of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, an Indian archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church, functioning within the Church at an ecclesiastical-rank second to the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, and his name is commemorated in liturgy throughout the Syriac Orthodox Archdioceses in India. The position was renamed as Catholicos of India in 2002, in accordance with its actual jurisdiction.
Catholicos of India | |
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| Bishopric | |
| Syriac Orthodox Church | |
| Incumbent: Baselios Thomas I 26 July 2002 | |
| Style | Aboon Mor His Beatitude the Catholicos |
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Headquarters | Patriarch Ignatius Zaka I Iwas Centre, Kerala, India |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church |
| Sui iuris church | Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church |
| Rite | Antiochene Syriac Rite |
| Established | Syriac Orthodox Church (1964) |
| Diocese | Catholicate See Jacobite Syrian Christian Church |
| Cathedral | Mar Athanasius Cathedral |
| Patron father | Saint Thomas |
| Current leadership | |
| Coadjutor | Malankara Metropolitan Joseph Gregorios |
| Website | |
| www | |
The current Catholicos of India is Baselios Thomas I, who was consecrated in 2002.
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