Indian Orthodox: New Catholicos-Designate
This is belated news, as it took place on October 12, but still of importance:
The Catholicos is the head of the Malankara Church, the rough equivalent of a patriarch. The Malankara are Oriental Orthodox, not Byzantine Orthodox.A meeting of the Malankara Syrian Christian Association , 4,051-member parliament of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, held at the St Gregorios Nagar (Parumala seminary premises) on the banks of the Pampa at Parumala near Thiruvalla at 1 p.m. on Today is over by electing Metropolitan Paulos Mar Militheos as Catholicos-designate.
A meeting of the Malankara Syrian Christian Association , 4,051-member parliament of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, held at the St Gregorios Nagar (Parumala seminary premises) on the banks of the Pampa at Parumala near Thiruvalla at 1 p.m. on Today is over by electing Metropolitan Paulos Mar Militheos as Catholicos-designate.
Catholicos-designate Paulos Mar Militheos, right, seated next to Catholicos Basileos Marthoma Didymus I (on throne).
Labels: Oriental Orthodox
posted by Ben Johnson at 10:37 PM
5 Comments:
So is this church Oriental Orthodox (ie, non-Chalcedonian) or Eastern Orthodox?
(Other non-Chalcedonians are the Copts, Armenian Apostolic, and Syriac Orthodox, FYI.)
You do realize the Monophysites (Oriental orthodox in PC-Eccumenistic talk) are anathema and have been for 1,500 years, right?
Abu, yes, they are OO, not EO. I've added a note to clarify. Those intererested in the differences -- and the discussions between the two groups -- can go to this site.
Nikolai Stanosheck ("Диакон Николай"), thanks for dropping in. You do realize your group, the "Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC)," is considered pseudodox by the canonical Orthodox Church, right? I assume that's the ROAC headed by Met. Valentin Rusantsov of Suzdal, whom the Moscow Times reports was convicted of pedophilia in 2002, and whom a ROCOR bishop accused of being "in the car of Archpriest Vladimir Shishkoff, the most active participant in the abduction of the ailing Metropolitan Vitaly from his residence at Synod."
"You do realize the Monophysites (Oriental orthodox in PC-Eccumenistic talk) are anathema and have been for 1,500 years, right?"
Do you realize that anathemas are not self-enforcing "curses" that, once they are pronounced, just run away from the Church's control and function on their own without the bishops who govern the Church.
The anathemas of Chalcedon against Eutyches and his doctrine don't really matter to the Copts and other Oriental Orthodox. They also anathemize Eutyches and consider him a heretic. That is why the Copts have been insisting until they have no breath left that we can anthemzie Eutyches all we want- **HE IS NOT A SAINT IN THEIR CHURCH**. This fact is purposely overlooked. Sometimes even reliable sites (like orthodoxinfo.com) keep repeating the lie that the Copts venerate Eutyches as a saint.
Dioscorus was anathemized for not coming to the Council.
The non-Chalcedonians categorically reject the false doctrine of monophysitism as Eutyches taught it (i.e. that the humanity of Christ was swallowed up in His divinity like a drop of vinegar in the ocean). Countless Coptic liturgical texts (such as the "Tasbeha" or midnight praises) speak of Christ as "consubstantial with the Father in His divinity and consubstantial with us in His humanity" or that after the hypostatic union his human and divine natures became as one "without seperation, confusion, comingling, and without alteration."
This indicates that according to the Copts (and other churches in communion with them), the human nature which the Logos took from the Theotokos has not been mixed or blended into the divine nature as some sort of third human/divine "supernature" which is seperate from both human nature and divine nature.
You don't get a chance to find out what the bishops of this church are teaching their flock and what they believe and pray in their liturgies unless you sit down with them and actually *TALK*. When Eastern Orthodox Christians (which I am one) act like pharisees that can't talk with those of other communions, or when we always insist that other groups are lying to us when they tell us that they DON'T believe something, then we are strictly dependent on the polemics of schismatic bishops for our information.
As you may well know, these old, bitter schismatic "bishops" are usually interested in keeping their equally bitter and pharisaical flock/cult from talking with other Christians. This ensures that they keep a "fortress mentality" against the rest of the universe and always look to their pedophile pseudodox "hierarchs" for guidance. It doesn't do much for the growth of said cult, but at least it keeps the members sufficiently frightened and keeps them from leaving.
-Julio
P.S. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to the weekly Monday night Bible study held by the Coptic youth group at my school. This month we are working through Nehemiah. We only interrupted the Nehemiah lectures for one week so that my Antiochian priest ( http://saintphilipflorida.com ) could give a "guest lecture" on the Orthodox view of personhood. I'm soooo glad I'm not in the "True One Holy Traditional Orthodox Church of S. Florida" or some other similar group. Those are some depressing "churches" to be a member of.
Ben, you do realize that that picture of the Indian Catholicoi is, like, the coolest episcopal picture ever, yes?
Could you post the link to where you found it?
Also, we here at Liturgical Maximalist Central (tm) are impatient to hear more of Oriental Orthodox Western Rite. Can you deliver the goods? (If not, my Benedictine henchmen Bruno and Maurus will be dragging you off to the monastery.)
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