{"id":60832,"date":"2018-05-17T04:29:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T04:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=60832"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T10:31:18","slug":"mar-yulios-turns-51-today-may-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=60832","title":{"rendered":"Mar Yulios turns 51 today, May 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hg_pulikkottil.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31330\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hg_pulikkottil-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hg_pulikkottil-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hg_pulikkottil-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hg_pulikkottil.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">AHMEDABAD: The ever \u2018smiling bishop\u2019 of Indian Orthodox Church, HG Pulikkottil Dr Geevarghese Mar Yulios, Ahmedabad Diocese Metropolitan, turns 51, on May 17, Thursday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This is an occasion to remember God\u2019s kindness in providing a worthy and committed son to the Orthodox Church whose life and ideals have given an honourable place for the Church.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">As His Grace enters a new year, Dr Mar Yulios needs support, cooperation, and prayers to steer the Church and the Diocese(s) in the right direction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A constant traveler, travelling the length and breadth of the Diocese states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Kerala, and the Gulf in the Sultanate of Oman, His Grace is always on the move preaching, teaching and leading the flock. Much of his schedule is spent travelling and to be with the faithful responding to their call.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Hailing from the famous Pulikkottil family of Kunnamkulam, Mar Yulios favourite topics range from inter-religious dialogue, philosophy, and Oriental studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">We pray that God the Almighty grant His Grace long life of happiness, peace and good health coupled with heavenly blessings. May God strengthen the \u2018smiling bishop\u2019 to lead and guide the Holy Church in the days ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Let us pray for celestial blessings are showered upon our beloved Metropolitan and all endeavors taken up by him.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Pray that the Holy Shepherd accomplishes his mission and realizes his dream of the many projects undertaken in his diocese and the ministry is strengthened abundantly. Here\u2019s wishing our beloved Metropolitan a very happy birthday and the Almighty shower blessings upon him now and always.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Today, though ailing from a blurred vision, the birthday bishop, will lead the ordination ceremony for Br Gibu George at St Mary&#8217;s Orthodox Cathedral, Puthencavu, Chengannur Diocese.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Liju Cherian<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AHMEDABAD: The ever \u2018smiling bishop\u2019 of Indian Orthodox Church, HG Pulikkottil Dr Geevarghese Mar Yulios, Ahmedabad Diocese Metropolitan, turns 51, on May 17, Thursday.\u00a0 This is an occasion to remember &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-teachers","category-dr-geevarghese-mar-yulios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60832","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=60832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60833,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60832\/revisions\/60833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}