Givergi's panic

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Givergis Paniker (born February 19, 1912 in Karichal near Alappuzha , India ; † October 23, 1986 , ibid) was a Catholic priest and theologian of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church .

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Givergi's panic came from an old and respected family of the Indian Thomas Christians . He was born in what is now Kerala and belonged to the autocephalous Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church , which was created after the so-called Oath of the Leaning Cross (1653) and its original East Syrian rite (also Chaldean rite ) of the Thomas Christians against the West Syrian Rite (also Antioch Rite ) had exchanged. Its members are also called Jacobites in South India .

Paniker attended the Jacobite Orthodox MD Seminary in Kottayam and was ordained a deacon in 1928 by Metropolitan Geevarghese Mar Dionysius (1858–1934) . In 1929 he married his wife Aleyamma.

In 1930, the two Jacobite Orthodox Bishops Geevarghese Mar Ivanios Panicker (1882-1953) and Jacob Mar Theophilos (1891-1956) converted to Catholicism while maintaining their liturgy and founded the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church , an oriental branch of the Catholic Church.

Givergis Paniker strongly supported the union with Rome and joined the Malankar Catholic Church with his family in 1931. With special canonical permission, he was ordained a priest in 1936 as a married deacon from Archbishop Mar Ivanios.

He taught as a professor at St. Joseph's Pontifical Seminary in Alwaye and became one of the leading Malankar Catholic theologians. In particular, he dealt with the liturgy of his church and wrote a detailed treatise on it, which appeared in book form, but was also published in 1982 as a chapter of the standard work The Eucharistic liturgy in the Christian East by Johannes Madey . In addition to his teaching activities, the clergyman worked as a Malankar Catholic pastor in his hometown of Karichal, where he also died in 1986.

Paniker had two sons who both became Catholic priests. Thomas Paniker, one of these sons, published his father's theological legacy in two volumes, as well as a new edition of the Mass declaration The Holy Qurbono in the Syro-Malankara Church in 1991 , which is his most important work.

literature

  • Givergi's Paniker: The Holy Qurbono in the Syro-Malankara Church , edited by Thomas Paniker (with author's résumé), SB Press Trivandrum, 1991; Complete scan of the book (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical page on Archbishop Mar Ivanios ( Memento of October 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Biographical page on Bishop Mar Theophilos ( Memento of February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ How to find the book The Eucharistic liturgy in the Christian East
personal data
SURNAME Panic, Givergis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian, Catholic priest and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Karichal, Kerala, India
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1986
Place of death Karichal, Kerala, India