{"id":53443,"date":"2017-05-30T05:53:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T05:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=53443"},"modified":"2017-05-30T05:53:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T05:53:06","slug":"vicar-fr-idichandy-launches-st-gregorios-home-for-the-homeless-project-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=53443","title":{"rendered":"Vicar Fr Idichandy launches \u2018St Gregorios Home for the Homeless project\u2019 in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FR-IDICHANDY-SEXTON-SAJU-BIJU-T-SAM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53440\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FR-IDICHANDY-SEXTON-SAJU-BIJU-T-SAM-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FR-IDICHANDY-SEXTON-SAJU-BIJU-T-SAM-300x151.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FR-IDICHANDY-SEXTON-SAJU-BIJU-T-SAM-768x387.jpg 768w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FR-IDICHANDY-SEXTON-SAJU-BIJU-T-SAM-1024x515.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FR-IDICHANDY-SEXTON-SAJU-BIJU-T-SAM.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">BENGALURU: Fr Varghese Philip Idichandy, Vicar, St Gregorios Orthodox Church, Mathikere, Bengaluru, has launched the \u2018Home for the Homeless Project\u2019 under the name of St Gregorios, the patron saint of the Parish and the first canonised saint of Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Syrian Church.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Fr Idichandy who has been harboring the project for long has conceived the project along with his numerous friends from Bengaluru Diocese.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The family of Mr Jacob Oommen (Saju), and Sheeba Jacob, will be the maiden beneficiary from the project. Saju is the long-serving Sexton at St Gregorios Orthodox Church,\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">HG Dr Abraham Mar Seraphim, Metropolitan, Bengaluru Diocese, blessed the prime foundation stone for the building, after the consecration and dedication of the reconstructed Mathikere Church on May 27.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The maiden home for the project is planned to come up at Hessaraghatta, near the Agricultural Colleges. Work on the project will begin soon.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Mr Biju T Sam, a member of Begur St George Orthodox Church, Bengaluru, and the chief architect of Mathikere church, will lead the project. He will be assisted by Mr Karthik, the civil contractor and Mr Sunil, electrical contractor.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Fr Idichandy who has chalked out a detailed plan says during the first phase he plans to build 3 homes for the poor. The vicar voluntarily handed over Rs 5 lakh towards the project which the Mathikere church committee had handed over to him towards their love and affection for building the church.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The Vicar has thus set an exemplary social service among all clergymen to utilise the amount offered to them for the best use to society and mankind.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Fr Idichandy is the leading force behind the concept of Bangalore Orthodox Gospel Team as its coordinator and has successfully led with the thematic design of Meltho calendar for Bengaluru Diocese for long.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A native of Mavelikara, Kerala, Fr Idichandy belongs to \u2018Alummottil, Panackel Thekkettil\u2019 Umbernadu, Kallumala PO. <b>Those interested to lend a helping hand towards the project can contact Fr Idichandy on +91-99165 92275.\u00a0 E: <a href=\"mailto:vpidichandy@yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vpidichandy@yahoo.com<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 BENGALURU: Fr Varghese Philip Idichandy, Vicar, St Gregorios Orthodox Church, Mathikere, Bengaluru, has launched the \u2018Home for the Homeless Project\u2019 under the name of St Gregorios, the patron saint &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,45,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diocesan-news","category-parish-news","category-priests","category-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53443","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=53443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53444,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53443\/revisions\/53444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}