{"id":32864,"date":"2015-03-07T05:24:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T05:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=32864"},"modified":"2015-03-07T05:24:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T05:24:45","slug":"india-post-to-release-stamps-on-orthodox-old-seminary-the-first-school-of-theology-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=32864","title":{"rendered":"India Post to release Stamps on Orthodox Old Seminary \u2013 the first School of Theology in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Pazhaya-Seminary.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32865\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Pazhaya-Seminary-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Pazhaya-Seminary\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Pazhaya-Seminary-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Pazhaya-Seminary-1024x685.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Pazhaya-Seminary.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Orthodox_Seminary_kottaya.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32866\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Orthodox_Seminary_kottaya-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Orthodox_Seminary_kottaya\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Orthodox_Seminary_kottaya-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Orthodox_Seminary_kottaya.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/orthodox_seminary_chapel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32867\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/orthodox_seminary_chapel-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"orthodox_seminary_chapel\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/orthodox_seminary_chapel-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/orthodox_seminary_chapel.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Ajesh T Phillip (OCP Delegate of the Indian Sub-Continent)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>OCP News Service \u2013 7\/3\/15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seminary Website<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ots.edu.in\/index.html\"> here:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>India\/Kottayam\/ Kerala:<\/strong> The Indian Postal Authority will release stamps on the historic\u00a0Orthodox Old Seminary in the most of March\u00a02015. \u00a0The Orthodox Old Seminary is\u00a0celebrating 200 years of its existence in year 2015. It was instituted in 1815 by the Indian Orthodox Malankara Church and is the first School of Theology in Asia.\u00a0The Land for the seminary was donated by the\u00a0Travancore Royal family.<\/p>\n<p>The Seminary functions as the major theological school of the Indian Orthodox Church which provides\u00a0Masters and Bachelors degree \u00a0along with doctoral programme.<\/p>\n<p>The history of the Seminary is part of the saga of the heroic struggles of the ancient Orthodox Christian community to preserve its identity, strengthen its spirituality and promote its ideals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<br \/>\nOCP News Service<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajesh T Phillip (OCP Delegate of the Indian Sub-Continent) OCP News Service \u2013 7\/3\/15 Seminary Website here: India\/Kottayam\/ Kerala: The Indian Postal Authority will release stamps on the historic\u00a0Orthodox Old &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orthodox-seminary-old-seminary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32868,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32864\/revisions\/32868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}