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Two consecrated as bishops of Assyrian Church of the East

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ORDAINED: Catholicos Patriarch Moran Mar Dinkha IV flanked by newly consecrated bishops Mar Yohannan Joseph (left) and Mar Augin Kuriakose in Thrissur on Sunday.

Thrissur: Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Moran Mar Dinkha IV on Sunday consecrated Mar Yohannan Joseph and Mar Augin Kuriakose as new bishops of the Church.

The Episcopal ordination was held at the special venue arranged at Chaldean Syrian Higher Secondary School ground. The Holy Synod of the Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East on Thursday unanimously decided to consecrate Joju Anto, 43, and Shaju Paulose, 35, as bishops with the Archdiocese of India. Both were appointed as Archdeacons at a ceremony on Friday. Along with Moran Mar Dinkha IV, Metropolitans Mar Aprem (India) and Mar Geevargis Sliwa (Iraq, Russia), Mar Meelis Zaia (Australia and Newzealand), and Bishops Mar Awa Royel (Diocese of California), Mar Odisho Oraham ( Diocese of Europe), Mar Aprem Natneil (Diocese-Syria), Mar Aprim Khamis (Diocese of the United States), Mar Emmanuel Yosip (Diocese of Canada) and Iskhaq Yosip (Diocese of Nohadra and Russia) were attending the Synod. A public reception was accorded to Moran Mar Dinkha IV and the prelates on Sunday. Union Minister of State K.V. Thomas inaugurated the function. The Catholicos Patriarch called for the unity of the faithful for the development of the Church. In his presidential address, Joseph Marthoma Metropolitan, Head of the Marthoma Syrian Church, said that the Church should take climate change and global warming as major issues. Paulose Mar Milithiose, Catholicos Designate, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church; Mar Andrews Thazhath, Archbishop, Syro-Malabar Church; Mathews Mor Aprem, Metropolitan, Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church; and K.P. Kuruvila, Bishop, CSI North Kerala Diocese; attended.

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