The reception into the Catholic Church on November 29, 1937, of the Jacobite Metropolitan of Neranam, the Most Rev. Mar. Severios, has stimulated all over the Catholic world interest in the Reunion Movement amongst the Malabar Christians in South India.
The movement began some seven years ago when two highly placed Jacobite prelates, Mar Ivanios, Archbishop of Bethany, and his suffragan, Mar Theophilos, made their submission to the Holy See. The Catholic Church, recognizing the validity of Jacobite Orders, accepted these two prelates into the Catholic Hierarchy after their submission.
Ever since that time, the Reunion Movement, under the guidance of Mar Ivanios and Mar Theophilus, has made slow but steady headway amongst the Jacobite schismatics of Malabar.
These two Bishops, however, previous to their reconciliation to the Holy See, were members of a Jacobite Religious Community, whereas the recently received Metropolitan of Neranam was actually ruling a Jacobite diocese – and that the oldest in Malabar.
The consequences of his step are likely, therefore, to be far-reaching.
Copyright: The Advocate, 21 April 1938
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