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Nagaland Governor to open Niranom fete

Staff Reporter

PATHANAMTHITTA: Nagaland Governor K. Sankaranrayanan will inaugurate the 90th birth anniversary (Navathy) celebrations of Mar Thoma Metropolitan Philipose Mar Chrysostum to be held under the auspices of the Niranom-Maramon diocese of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar at the Jerusalem Mar Thoma Church at Niranom near Thiruvalla on Wednesday.

In a statement issued here on Sunday, diocese secretary Fr. Samson Jacob and treasurer George Varghese said the meeting will begin at the church auditorium at 3.30 pm.

Dr. Joseph Mar Ireneus Saffragan Metropolitan will preside over the meeting. The Catholicos Baselius Thomas-I of the Jacobite Church will deliver the benedictory speech.

Transport Minister Mathew T. Thomas, Prof P.J. Kurien, MP, Thomas Chandy, MLA, Zacharias Mar Theophilus Saffragan Metropolitan, Yuhanon Mar Chrisostomos Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Church, Fr Abraham Samuel, Vicar General, the Church Secretary, Fr K.M. Mammen and the member of the diocese council, George Thomas, will also address the meeting.

Fr. Jacob said the diocese would also launch a series of society-oriented welfare schemes.

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