{"id":41616,"date":"2016-01-07T03:32:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T03:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=41616"},"modified":"2016-01-07T06:33:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T06:33:58","slug":"mar-yulios-to-lead-feast-of-st-stephen-at-salalah-orthodox-church-on-jan-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=41616","title":{"rendered":"Mar Yulios to lead feast of St Stephen at Salalah Orthodox Church on Jan 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/AIRPORT-ARRIVAL.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41617\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/AIRPORT-ARRIVAL-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"AIRPORT ARRIVAL\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/AIRPORT-ARRIVAL-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/AIRPORT-ARRIVAL.jpg 905w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">SALALAH, Sultanate of Oman: Ahmedabad Diocese Metropolitan HG Pulikkottil Dr Geevarghese Mar Yulios will lead the feast of St Stephen at the St Stephen\u2019s Orthodox Church, Salalah (Vicar Fr Jose Chemmun) on January 8, Friday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Feast of St Stephen, is a Christian saint\u2019s day to commemorate Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr, celebrated in January by the Eastern Orthodox. The Indian Orthodox church is named in the sacred name of the first martyr of the Church in southern region of the Sultanate of Oman in Salalah. Four Indian Orthodox churches in the Sultanate come under the Orthodox Diocese of Ahmedabad headed by Metropolitan Mar Yulios.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">On January 8, the Metropolitan will lead the evening prayers, Holy Eucharist and Rasa followed by benediction and nercha velambu.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">From January 11 to 16, Mar Yulios will also be visiting the St Mary\u2019s Orthodox Church, Ghala in Muscat, (Vicar Fr George Varghese). The Metropolitan will lead the St Mary\u2019s Feast at the Church on January 15, Friday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Earlier, upon arrival at the Muscat International Airport on a two-week visit, Mar Yulios and Fr P A Philip were received by Fr George Varghese (Vicar, St Mary\u2019s Orthodox Church Ghala), Fr Jacob Mathew (Vicar, Muscat Mar Gregorios Orthodox Maha Edavaka), members of the managing committee, parishioners and others.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALALAH, Sultanate of Oman: Ahmedabad Diocese Metropolitan HG Pulikkottil Dr Geevarghese Mar Yulios will lead the feast of St Stephen at the St Stephen\u2019s Orthodox Church, Salalah (Vicar Fr Jose &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gulf-churches","category-parish-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41618,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41616\/revisions\/41618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}