Catholicos Baselios Paulose II
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His Beatitude Catholicose Baselios Paulose II (June 12, 1914 – September 1, 1996) was a Catholicos of the East of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
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[edit] Early Life
Paulose was born on June 12, 1914 to the Vicar of Cherai St. Mary's church, Kasheesho Puthusseri Joseph and Elizabeth. He was named P. J. Paulose and completed his secondary education at Cherai Ramavarma High School. After completing college education at Kottayam CMS College and Alwaye Union Christian College, Paulose joined the Manjinikkara Deiro. Paulose continued his Syriac education under Rabban Abdul Ahad (later Patriarch Yaqub III).
[edit] Holy Orders
[edit] Priesthood
In 1934, Mor Yulius Elias, the delegate of the Patriarch to Malankara, ordained Paulose as deacon. In 1938, Yulius ordained him priest at Manjinikkara Deiro. Later Paulose became secretary to Yulius and malphono at Manjinikkara Deiro.
[edit] Metropolitan
On April 25, 1952, the Kandanad diocesan delegates meeting selected Kasheesho Paulose to succeed late Paulose Mor Athanasios who had relinquished his additional duties as the metropolitan of Kandanad due to illness. Patriarch Aphrem I ordained Kasheesho P. J. Paulose with the name Mor Philoxenus on October 19, 1952 at Homs, Syria.
[edit] Catholicose
On September 7, 1975, Patriarch Yakub III consecrated Mor Philoxenus as Catholicos of the East. On September 14, 1980, he made history consecrating Mor Ignatios Zakka I Iwas, Archbishop of Baghdad, as the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch; this was the first time in the long history of the Patriarchate of Antioch that a Catholicose from Malankara officiated at the consecration of a Patriarch. He also ordained six bishops for the Malankara church.
[edit] Death & Entombment
The remains of Catholicose Basileus Paulose II are interred in a tomb in Malekuishu Deiro near Puthenkurishu in Ernakulam District, Kerala
| Preceded by 'Nil' |
Catholicos of the East 1975—1996 |
Succeeded by Baselios Thomas I |
[edit] See also
- List of Syriac Orthodox Patriarchs of Antioch
- List of Catholicoses of the East
- Syriac Orthodox Church
- Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church
- Syriac Christianity
- Saint Thomas Christians
