Cyril Baselios Malancharuvil
Cyril Mar Baselios Malancharuvil (born August 16, 1935 in Pandalam , Pathanamthitta District , Kerala , India ; † January 18, 2007 in Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala, India) was Grand Archbishop of Trivandrum and head of the Syro-Malankar Church unified with Rome .
Cyril Baselios Malancharuvil was a member of the Order of the Following Christ (OIC). He was ordained a priest on October 4, 1960 . In 1978 he became bishop of the newly founded Battery Eparchy in India, a suffragan of the Tiruvalla Archeparchy . He received his episcopal ordination on December 28, 1978, the Archbishop of Trivandrum, Benedict Varghese Gregorios Thangalathil OIC; Co - consecrators were Eustathe Joseph Mounayer , Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Damascus , and Paulos Philoxinos Ayyamkulangara , auxiliary bishop in the Trivandrum Archepark . In 1995 Cyril Baselios Malancharuvil was appointed Archbishop of Trivandrum (seat in Thiruvananthapuram ) and in 2005 made Grand Archbishop.
Cyril Baselios Malancharuvil was head of the Syro-Malankar Church united with Rome from 1995 until his death .
He died in Thiruvananthapuram of complications from kidney disease.
Web links
- Entry on Cyril Baselio's Malancharuvil on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on May 11, 2018.
- Biographical website of Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum ( Memento of October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- Biography of Cyril Baselios Malancharuvil (French)
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| SURNAME | Malancharuvil, Cyril Baselios |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Malancharuvil, Cyril Mar Baselios |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian clergyman, head of the Syro-Malankar Church united with Rome |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pandalam , India |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 2007 |
| Place of death | Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala , India |