A Seminary Established

The first step taken by Mar Ivanios and Mar Theophilos to ensure the success of the Jacobite Reunion Movement was the foundation of the Infant Mary's Minor Seminary at Tiruvalla. Already, it counts 25 students. At present, it is searching for books in English to form a library. Works...
A Seminary Established

The first step taken by Mar Ivanios and Mar Theophilos to ensure the success of the Jacobite Reunion Movement was the foundation of the Infant Mary's Minor Seminary at Tiruvalla. Already, it counts 25 students. It is at present searching for books in English to form a library. Works...
Two Dioceses Formed for Jacobite Converts in India. Mar Ivanios Returns From Europe Unexpectedly.

The "Universe" correspondent in Calcutta says:The Pope has suppressed the two dioceses in Malabar which were provisionally created at the beginning of the great conversion movement which has brought into the Catholic Church such a big proportion of the Jacobites of this part of Southern India and has created...
Mar Ivanios: Sudden Return to India

Unexpected Departure: A Reuter telegram from Cologne states that Mar Ivanios, Archbishop of Trivandrum and leader of the great Jacobite reconciliation to Catholicism, suddenly cancelled his European tour and was hurrying back to India by aeroplane. Accompanied by his secretary, the convert Archbishop boarded the airplane at Aachen.Route and...
Mar Ivanios To Erect A Church — Will Be Dedicated To St. Patrick — The Vitality Of The Irish Mission.

Inquiries published recently in the "Universe" newspaper have produced some extremely remarkable information concerning the number of churches dedicated to St. Patrick in all parts of the world. This week the "Universe" brings that total of such churches to over a thousand, which must be almost unequalled by any...
Church Building in India

Archbishop's Appeal: As a result of his recent appeal, Archbishop Mar Ivanios has received from an anonymous donor £130 to build one of the many churches he and his brother Bishop, Mar Theophilos, need for their many converts from the Jacobite Church.Dedication to St. Patrick: Mar Ivanios has decided...
Letter From London

"NEWMAN OF INDIA" — ARCHBISHOP MAR IVANIOS — THE STORY OF HIS CONVERSION — A MYSTERY AT MALABAR — TRIALS SUFFERED BY THE CONVERT CLERGY — MAR IVANIOS' VISIT TO BRITAIN — ENCOURAGEMENT OF NATIVE MISSIONS BY THE HOLY FATHER.LONDON, July 19.Mutual movn: England. any great people tii re...
Archbishop Mar Ivanios

By the Rev. John J. Considine, M.M., Director of FIDES ServiceMost Reverend Mar Ivanios, Archbishop of Bethany, IndiaThe two most discussed Christians in India today are Mar Ivanios and Mar Theophilos, Archbishop and Bishop, respectively, of the Syro-Malankara Catholics. The year 1930 saw this new rite established in the...
The Bethany Movement and its Apostle

Archbishop Mar Ivanios InterviewedA great figure at the Dublin Eucharistic Congress was that of His Grace, the Archbishop of the converted Jacobites of Malabar. Stopping in Rome on his way to the Eucharistic Congress at Dublin, Mar Ivanios received the Archbishop's Pallium from the hands of the Holy Father...
Back to Mother Church: The Jacobite Conversions. Archbishop Ivanios’ Letter to the “Catholic Press”

Mar Ivanios, asked that he be reunited with the Holy See. This was granted, and his episcopal powers were recognized. Thus, he became the "Newman of Jacobitism," for he was soon followed by the Bishop-designate of the schismatic Church, the Bethany Monks, the Bethany Sisters, several Jacobite priests, and...