The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that the status quo be maintained in the long-standing dispute between the Malankara Orthodox and Jacobite factions over the administration of churches in Kerala. The order comes amid renewed tensions following the Supreme Court’s directive on December 3, which ordered the Jacobite faction to hand over control of six disputed churches to the Orthodox …
After a long hearing which went on for over one and a half hours, the Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing in the dispute between the Malankara Orthodox and Jacobite Churches, directing that the status quo with respect to the management and the administration of the churches, as they exist today, should be maintained till the next date of …
Supreme Court said “status quo” must be maintained for now, while hearing the dispute between the Malankara Orthodox and Jacobite churches in Kerala. CHURCH BURIAL ISSUES Meanwhile, the Malankara Orthodox Church objected to Jacobite members performing their funeral rituals within church premises, though they said Jacobite members could still use the cemeteries for burials if the ceremonies happened elsewhere. EARLIER …
Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church Ignatius Aphrem II described Catholicos Baselios Thomas I, head of the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church who passed away on October 31, as a true shepherd to his flock, who led them on the right path. The late Catholicos made sacrifices for the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church at a time …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that the members of the Jacobite Syrian Church are in contempt for "wilfully disobeying" the judgments regarding the entrustment of Churches to the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church as per the 1934 Constitution.The Court directed the members of the Jacobite church to hand over the administration of three churches each in Ernakulam and. The Supreme …
