Malankara Orthodox Church responds to Patriarch of Antioch’s call for peace, stresses respect for court verdicts
Yuhanon Mar Diascoros Metropolitan, president of the Church’s media wing, cautions that a call for peace will ring hollow if accompanied by attempts to defy court verdicts
Malankara Orthodox Church leader Yuhanon Mar Diascoros Metropolitan welcomed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II's call for peace in the Malankara Church, emphasizing that reconciliation can be achieved immediately if both national laws and church regulations are respected. The Metropolitan cautioned that a call for peace would be empty if it encouraged defying court verdicts.
He emphasized that the Patriarch needs the Catholicos and Malankara Metropolitan's permission to enter Malankara Church churches, as per the 1995 court verdict, and the 2017 Supreme Court verdict ruled out parallel administration in the Church. The Metropolitan expressed satisfaction with the recognition of St Thomas the Apostle's legacy by those who previously opposed it, despite their arguments against the Apostle's priestly authority.
He highlighted that the relationship between the Malankara Church and the Antiochian Church has been defined by the Mulanthuruthy Synod of 1876 and the Mavelikkara Synod of 1754, with the Church consistently opposing the extension of the Patriarch's role to absolute authority. The Metropolitan criticized those who ignored the role of Metropolitan Pulikkottil Joseph Mar Dionysius, elected president of the Mulanthuruthy Synod, calling it an attempt to erase history.
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