Personal – 25th Episcopal Jubilee of Mar Ivanios

Archbishop Mar Ivanios of Trivandrum, who toured Australia some time ago, has observed his 25th episcopal jubilee. He received an Apostolic Blessing from His Holiness the Pope. Called the “Newman of India,” Archbishop Ivanios came over to the Catholic Church with a number of his followers in 1930 from the Jacobite schismatic church when he was already an Archbishop. Upon his conversion, the Holy See made him the head of the Syro-Malankara Rite, which has its liturgy in Malabar.

Copyright: Catholic Weekly 10th May 1951