Wednesday, 05 May 2021 03:21 PM MYT
Philipose Mar Chrysostom, fondly known to local Mar Thoma parishioners as Valiya Thirumeni, was the emeritus Metropolitan of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, and a bishop for close to 68 years.
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 ― Bishop Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma Valiya Metropolitan has passed away at age 104.
Early this morning (May 5), many Mar Thoma Malaysians were met with the news that His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma Valiya Metropolitan, a venerable bishop of the Mar Thoma Syrian Christian Church, had passed away at the Fellowship Mission Hospital in Kumbanad, in the Pathanamthitta district of Kerala, India. He had just celebrated his 104th birthday on April 27, and was regarded as one of the world’s oldest bishops.