Baselios Augen I

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Baselios Augen I

Catholicos of the East & Malankara Metropolitan
Syriac Orthodox Church in India
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
SeeKottayam
Installed22 May 1964
Term ended24 September 1975
PredecessorBaselios Geevarghese II
SuccessorBaselios Marthoma Mathews I (in Malankara Orthodox Lineage) Baselios Paulose II (in Malankara Jacobite Lineage)
Orders
Ordination1908
by Sleeba Osthathios
Consecration15 May 1927
by Ignatius Elias III
Personal details
Born26 June 1884
Perumbavoor, Kerala, India
Died8 December 1975(1975-12-08) (aged 91)
Kottayam, Kerala, India
BuriedCatholicate Palace, Devalokam, Kottayam, Kerala, India

Baselios Augen I (26 June 1884 – 3 December 1975) was the 17th Malankara Metropolitan, the fourth Catholicos of the East in the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. He was the first Catholicos consecrated in a reunified Malankara Church, by the Patriarch of Antioch in 1964 and his tenure saw a second split in the church.

Early days and education

He was born on 26 June 1884 at Puthencruz, Ernakulam district of the Indian state of Kerala.

Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan (1964–75)

After the Supreme court order in 1958 which ended the half-a-century long litigations, the two factions of Malankara Church re-united as the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church as part of the Syrian Orthodox Church, under the 1934 Constitution.[1]

Visit of Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI met him on 3 December 1964 in the Palace of the Catholic Archbishop of Bombay.[2]

Addis Ababa conference

In January 1965, 81-year-old Augen I attended the Synod of Oriental Orthodox Churches at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,[3] convened by the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie.[4]

Second rift of the Malankara Syrian Church

By the early 1970s, there was a second rift in the Malankara Syrian Church and factional feud re-emerged. From 6 October 1971, he began to include the phrase "sitting the Throne of Saint Thomas the Apostle" in his official title. The 1975 Syriac Orthodox Synod presided by the Patriarch of Antioch, deposed Augen.The supporters of the Syriac Synod, accepted the authority of the newly installed Catholicos Baselios Paulose II as the second Catholicos of the East in India. Supporters of Augen elected Baselios Mathews l as the 5th Catholicose of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, after his retirement.

Retirement and death

He retired on 24 September 1975 and Baselios Marthoma Mathews I was installed as the Catholicos.

On 8 December 1975 he died and was buried at the Catholicate Palace, Devalokam, Kottayam. His church celebrates hismemorial feast on 8 December.[5]

Further reading

See also

References

  1. ^ "THE CONSTITUTION OF THE MALANKARA ORTHODOX SYRIAN CHURCH" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  2. ^ "全富购彩 - 百度百科". Archived from the original on 16 June 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  3. ^ "Oriental Orthodox Research Center | Autonomous". Archived from the original on 9 October 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
  4. ^ Thalakkulath, Fr. T. C. Jacob (June 1965). എത്യോപ്യൻ സുന്നഹദോസും വിശുദ്ധനാട് സന്ദർശനവും [The Synod/Conference in Ethiopia and Visit to Holy Land] (in Malayalam). India: MOC Publications, Kottayam. p. 14.
  5. ^ "The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church". Retrieved 7 September 2019.
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