{"id":43098,"date":"2016-03-05T03:49:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T03:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=43098"},"modified":"2016-03-05T05:50:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T05:50:14","slug":"catholicos-st-mar-dionysius-strove-to-place-mosc-high-among-oriental-orthodox-churches-as-relics-installed-at-muscat-maha-edavaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=43098","title":{"rendered":"Catholicos: St Mar Dionysius strove to place MOSC high among Oriental Orthodox  churches\u00a0as relics installed at Muscat Maha Edavaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HOLY-RELICS-INSTALLATION-CEREMONY_edited.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43099\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HOLY-RELICS-INSTALLATION-CEREMONY_edited-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"HOLY RELICS INSTALLATION CEREMONY_edited\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HOLY-RELICS-INSTALLATION-CEREMONY_edited-300x173.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HOLY-RELICS-INSTALLATION-CEREMONY_edited-70x40.jpg 70w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HOLY-RELICS-INSTALLATION-CEREMONY_edited.jpg 937w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">MUSCAT: HH Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II, Catholicos of the East &amp; Malankara Metropolitan, along with\u00a0Ahmedabad Diocesan Metropolitan HG Pullikkottil Dr Geevarghese Mar Yulios\u00a0lead the installation ceremony of the holy relics of St Vattasseril Geevarghese Mar Dionysius and St Gregorios of Parumala at\u00a0Muscat Mar Gregorios Orthodox Maha Edavaka on March 4, 2016.<br \/>\nThe Catholicos praised the Muscat Mar Gregorios Maha Edavaka for installing the relics of a great luminary of Malankara Orthodox Church, popularly known as \u2018<i>Malankara Sabha Bhasuran\u2019<\/i>, and preferred all Orthodox churches to celebrate his feast without fail.<br \/>\nThe Prelate heaped praises on the rich contributions of a luminary who strove hard through his efforts to help the traditional and centuries-old Malankara Orthodox Church stand erect to make its voice heard among the comity of Oriental Orthodox churches. The role of the saints help to lead us and is a blessing to the future generation, the Catholicos said pointing that the holy relics have their own authentication.<br \/>\nHG Pullikkottil Dr Geevarghese Mar Yulios read the citation of the two plaques erected at the site and urged all to show outmost reverence to the holy saints while visiting the church.<br \/>\nFr Jacob Mathew, Vicar, Mar Gregorios Maha Edavaka, Fr Kuriakose Varghese,\u00a0Associate Vicar, Very Rev Joseph Samuel Karukayil, Cor Episcopa, Dn Santhosh also attended the ceremony.<br \/>\nThe relics committee included P K Koshy, Sabha Managing Committee member and General Convenor, Abraham Mathew, Publicity Convenor, O Thomas, Reception Convenor and Mammen George, Diocesan Council Member.<br \/>\nLater the Catholicos and Mar Yulios blessed and declared open the newly renovated office of the Maha Edavaka. A large number of faithful attended the ceremony.\u00a0John Thomas, Trustee, Varghese David, Co-Trustee, John P Luke, Secretary, also attended.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUSCAT: HH Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II, Catholicos of the East &amp; Malankara Metropolitan, along with\u00a0Ahmedabad Diocesan Metropolitan HG Pullikkottil Dr Geevarghese Mar Yulios\u00a0lead the installation ceremony of the holy &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gulf-churches","category-parish-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43098","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=43098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43100,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43098\/revisions\/43100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}