Three new corepiscopos ordained for Syro-Malankara Church

Three new corepiscopos were ordained for the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church on April 25, 2023, at the Pattom Cathedral in Thiruvananthapuram. The ordination was led by His Beatitude Baselios Cardinal Cleemis Catholicos, the head and father of the Syro-Malankara Church.

The newly ordained coepiscopos are:

• Right Rev. Monsignor Dr. Johnson Kaimalayil
• Rev. Dr. Varkey Attupurath
• Very Rev. Fr. John Karavila

The ordination ceremony was attended by a large gathering of clergy, religious, and lay people from all over the Syro-Malankara Church.

In his homily, Cardinal Cleemis urged the newly ordained auxiliary bishops to be faithful to their calling and to serve the church with humility and love. He also called on them to be compassionate and to reach out to the poor and marginalized.

The auxiliary bishops will now be assigned to various dioceses in the Syro-Malankara Church to help the bishops in their pastoral ministry.