By Matters India Reporter Kottody, May 20, 2023: A Catholic couple exchanged marriage vows and garlanded each other in front of a closed church after the groom’s priest defied a court order and refused to issue a mandatory certificate. Had the Kottayam Knanaya archdiocese granted Justin John permission to marryContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, March 15, 2023: The Kerala High Court has turned down the Kottayam archbishop’s plea seeking a stay of a lower court order that ended the centuries-old practice of endogamy in his Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church. The Kottayam archdiocese based in the southern Indian state ofContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: Discussions are underway in Faridabad Syro-Malabar diocese to create personal parishes for Catholics who claim direct Jewish blood lineage. Archbishop Kuriakose Bharanikulangara of Faridabad told Matters India on March 26 that they have started discussions on the matter with the Vatican and Kottayam archdiocese inContinue Reading
By: Matters India Reporter Kottayam,Kerala: Kuriakose Kunnassery, the first Syro Malabar archbishop of the Kottayam and spiritual leader of Knanaya Catholics, passed away on June 14. He was 88. He was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Kottayam. The archdiocese has made arrangements for the public to pay respectsContinue Reading
The practice is to maintain purity of bloodContinue Reading
