{"id":43468,"date":"2016-03-18T04:57:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T04:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=43468"},"modified":"2016-03-18T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T11:00:03","slug":"mar-irenios-leads-catholicate-day-celebrations-at-mar-gregorios-maha-edavaka-muscat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=43468","title":{"rendered":"Mar Irenios leads Catholicate Day celebrations at\u00a0\u00a0Mar Gregorios Maha Edavaka Muscat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CATHOLICATE-DAY-CELEBRATIONS.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43469\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CATHOLICATE-DAY-CELEBRATIONS-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"CATHOLICATE DAY CELEBRATIONS\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CATHOLICATE-DAY-CELEBRATIONS-300x170.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CATHOLICATE-DAY-CELEBRATIONS-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CATHOLICATE-DAY-CELEBRATIONS-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">MUSCAT: HG Dr Yacob Mar Irenios, Metropolitan of Kochi\u00a0Diocese, hoisted the Catholicate flag during the Catholicate Day (Church Day) celebrations of the Mar Gregorios Orthodox Maha Edavaka, Muscat, on March 18, Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Dr Mar Irenios in his presidential address hailed the efforts of the forefathers who toiled hard to make the present Malankara Orthodox Church. \u201cWe must be proud to be members of the Malankara Church, the ancient Apostolic church founded by St Thomas, in 1912,\u201d His Grace said as he led the 104<sup>th<\/sup> year celebrations on the 40<sup>th<\/sup> day of the Great Lent. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Rev Fr Kuriakose Varghese, Associate Vicar, read out the\u00a0Catholicate\u00a0Day\u00a0Kalpana from Catholicate\u00a0of the East and Malankara Metropolitan His Holiness Baselios Marthoma Paulose II.\u00a0Fr Jacob Mathew, Vicar\/President, in his inaugural address called upon the faithful to extend all help to the Catholicate Day collection for 2016.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Varghese\u00a0David, Co-Trustee, read out the Catholicate pledge.\u00a0Mammen George, Diocese Council member, handed over the maiden Catholicate cover to Mar Irenaios. John Thomas, Trustee,\u00a0also spoke, while John P Luke, Secretary, delivered the vote of thanks. The senior choir of the church chorused the <em>Catholica mangala ganam<\/em> towards the end.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUSCAT: HG Dr Yacob Mar Irenios, Metropolitan of Kochi\u00a0Diocese, hoisted the Catholicate flag during the Catholicate Day (Church Day) celebrations of the Mar Gregorios Orthodox Maha Edavaka, Muscat, on March &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43468","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\/43468","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=43468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43471,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43468\/revisions\/43471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}