KOTTAYAM: Baselios Marthoma Paulose II, the supreme head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India, who was instrumental in initiating several path-breaking changes in the church, passed away in the early hours of Monday, a spokesman of the church said. He was 74.
He was undergoing treatment for post-Covid-19 complications, the church spokesman said. The senior priest, who had been suffering from lung cancer since December 2019, had recovered from the Covid-19 infection in February this year.
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