The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church

Denomination·Founded 1912 CE·est. ~2.5 million, mostly in Kerala and the Gulf; the church's own figure.

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The Malankara Orthodox Syrian ChurchDiocese of UK-Europe and Africa

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Parumala Thirumeni.

Geevarghese Mar Gregorios died at Parumala in 1902, and people were coming to his tomb for healing within months. The Malankara church declared him a saint in 1947 — its own canonisation, of its own bishop, on its own authority, which was the point. The pilgrimage each November draws hundreds of thousands, Christian and not.

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Names & titlesParumala Thirumeni; Saint Gregorios of Parumala; Geevarghese Mar Gregorios
Domainhealing, and the ordinary petitions people bring to a tomb
Depicted asan old bishop in a black hood with a hand cross, usually in photograph rather than icon
Standingdeclared a saint by the Malankara church in 1947, the first Indian to be canonised by an Indian church
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Mar Gregorios was born in 1848 at Mulanthuruthy, consecrated bishop at twenty-eight, and spent his life founding schools and a seminary at Parumala on an island in the Pamba. The 1947 declaration was made by the Malankara church itself and was a statement of independence as much as of devotion. His feast, on 2 November, brings Hindus and Muslims to the tomb as well as Christians, which Kerala regards as unremarkable. The Jacobite church venerates him too; the shrine is held by the Orthodox side.

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