Syro-Malankara Major Archdiocese of

Trivandrum

India India

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Syro-Malankara (Antiochian)

Type: Major Archdiocese Major Archdiocese

Name: Trivandrum / Thiruvananthapuram / Trivandren(sis) Syrorum Malankarensium (Latin)

Subject to the Major Archbishop

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

History

Contact Info

Address: Major Archbishop’s House, Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram 695004, Kerala, India

Phone: (0471)2541.642; 2541.643

Present Prelates

Major Archbishop ([2007.02.08] 2007.02.10 – ...):Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal (66)Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal (66)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Gregorio VII

President of Synod of the Syro-Malankara Church

Ordinaries

Major Archbishops of Trivandrum (Syro-Malankara Rite)

Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal (66)Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal (Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal) (66)
(2007.02.10 – ...)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Gregorio VII
Major Archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara (India)
President of Synod of the Syro-Malankara Church

To unite in love

Born:1959.06.15 (Nedungadappally, India)
Ordained Priest:1986.06.11
Consecrated Bishop:2001.08.15
Created Cardinal:2012.11.24

Priest of Bathery of the Syro-Malankara (India) (1986.06.11 – 2001.06.18)

Titular Bishop of Chayal of the Syro-Malankara (2001.06.18 – 2003.09.11)

Auxiliary Bishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara (India) (2001.06.18 – 2003.09.11)

Apostolic Visitator in North America of the Syro-Malankara (2001.06.18 – 2003.09.11)

Apostolic Visitator in Europe of the Syro-Malankara (2001.06.18 – 2003.09.11)

Bishop of Tiruvalla of the Syro-Malankara (India) (2003.09.11 – 2006.05.15)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Tiruvalla of the Syro-Malankara (India) (2006.05.15 – 2007.02.10)

Major Archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara (India) ([2007.02.08] 2007.02.10 – ...)

President of Synod of the Syro-Malankara Church (2007.02.10 – ...)

Second Vice-President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (2008.02.19 – 2010.03.01)

Vice-President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (2010.03.01 – 2014.02.12)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Gregorio VII (2012.11.24 [2013.05.19] – ...)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (2014.02.12 – 2018.02.09)

Major Archbishop Cyril Baselios Malancharuvil (Cyril Baselios Malancharuvil, O.I.C.)
(2005.02.10 – 2007.01.18)

Born:1935.08.16 (Pandalam, India)
Ordained Priest:1960.10.04
Consecrated Bishop:1978.12.28
Died:2007.01.18 (Trivandrum, India † 71)

Superior General of Order of the Imitation of Christ (1974 – 1978.10.28)

Bishop of Bathery of the Syro-Malankara (India) (1978.10.28 – 1995.11.06)

President of Synod of the Syro-Malankara Church (1995 – 2007.01.18)

Metropolitan of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara (India) (1995.11.06 – 2005.02.10)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (2000 – 2004)

Major Archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara (India) (2005.02.10 – 2007.01.18)

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