Pope Francis erects new Syro-Malankara Eparchy in US, Canada

(Note: Our friend  Alphone Bernard in New York send us this report. In the footsteps of Syromalabar Church, the Malankara Church for the first time is making its foot hold in the most 290250_235977559773812_6983603_orich country. “Diversity is divine, division is diabolical,” Bishop Tony Palmer in a Video clipping I was just listing to. He was presenting his meeting with Pope Francis to bring about unity between Protestants and Catholics. So diversity of Rites and churches may be divine. What is diabolical may be their competitions for episcopal thrones as James and John tried to book seats on the right and left of Jesus through their mother. According to Palmer there are already some 35 thousand Christian denominations. Well and good if they are united in Jesus and striving to achieve that Unity Jesus prayed for. When Bishop Joy Alappat recently asked me to work for the spread of Syromalabar Curch, I told him I can pray only for the Unity of all for which Jesus prayed for and not for the expansion any churches or Rites (right or wrong). james kottoor,editor)

Pope Francis on Monday erected the Syro-Malankara Eparchy of St. Mary, Queen of Peace, of the United States and Canada, nominating Bishop Thomas Mar Eusebius Naickamparambil as its first Bishop.

The Eparchy consists of 11,500 faithful, especially in the US states of Illinois, Texas, Michigan, Florida, New York, and Washington, D.C., served by 19 priests in 19 parishes or missions. Three women religious Institutes also operate within the Eparchy’s territory.

The Eparchy’s seat will be at St. Vincent de Paul Malankara Catholic Cathedral in Elmont, New York, Vatican Radio reported.

Curriculum vitae​

Bishop Thomas Mar Eusebius Naickamparambil was born in Mylapra in the Major Archieparchy of Trivandrum on 6 June 1961 and ordained a priest on 29 December 1986.

After completing his studies in Philosophy and Theology at Jnanadeepa in Poona, Bishop Mar Eusebius obtained his Doctorate in Philosophy in Rome.

On 14 July 2010 Pope Benedict XVI nominated him Titular Bishop of Lares and the first Exarch of the Exarchate for the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in the USA and Apostolic Visitator to Canada and Europe.

Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, recently called the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church ‘a bridge to unity’.

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