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Major Archbishop Baselios Cleemis of
Trivandrum Archdiocese of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, with
the consent of the Syro-Malankara Synod of Bishops, has promoted
Bishop Thomas Koorilos Chakkalapadickal of Muvattapuzha to the
office of metropolitan Archbishop of Tiruvalla.
The archbishop-elect was born in
Kadapramannar, Kerala in 1959, ordained a priest in 1985 and
consecrated a bishop in 1997.
He succeeds Major Archbishop
Baselios Cleemis who was elected to succeed His Beatitude Archbishop
Cyril Mar Baselios who went to his heavenly reward on 18 January,
2007. |
