Baselios Mar Cleemis Bava ordained to Cardinal

         Major Archbishop of Malankara Catholica Baselios Mar Cleemis Bava ordained as Cardinal at Vatican on saturday.He is the first cardinal of Syro Malankara Catholica sabha.He was born in mukkoor, Thiruvalla on June 15 1959 as Issac Thottunkal. Major Archbishop Mar George Alencheri of Syro Malabar was ordained as Cardinal early this year. For the holy cardinal ordination, the Syro-Malankara Catholic Sabha has got its first Prince of the Church.Cleemis is known to be the youngest cardinal in the world as per the details revealed. Instead of George Alencheri, he follows Joseph Parekkatil, Antony Padiyara, Varkey Vithayathil; all of them belong to his predecessors in his holy journey.

Holy Life of Cardinal Mar Cleemis Bava

      Mar Cleemis Bava was born in 1959 June 15 at mukkoor,Thirualla,Kerala.His primary education was in St.Mary’s High School,Mukkoor.He Attended the Minor Seminary Formation in Thiruvalla during the year 1976 to 1979.During 1979 to 1982, received B.Phil degree from St.Joseph’s Pontifical Institute,Mangalapuzha,aluva .In the year 1982 he started to study  B.Th  from Papal Seminary,Pune and received degree in 1986.After that  he Studied Master of Theology in Dharmaram College, Bangalore from 1986 to 1989.Then he took Doctorate in Ecumenical Theology from Pontifical University of St.Thomas Aquinas, Rome in 1997.
    
                                              

                                                                                  

      

            His career start from Eparchy of Bathery as Vicar General.He nominated as the Apostolic visitor and the Auxiliary Bishop of Trivandrum on 18 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II.  He was consecrated on 15 August 2001 at Tirumoolapuram, Thiruvalla, assuming the name Isaac Mar Cleemis.He appointed as sixth Bishop of the Eparchy of Thiruvalla on September 11, 2003. Cleemis was installed as the first Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archieparchy of Thiruvalla on June 10, 2006.

                                                           

                                                                             

          

      Mar Cleemis was elected the Second Major Archbishop Catholicos of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. It was done through the first Holy Episcopal Synod of election of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church held on 7–10 February 2007 at Catholicate Centre, Pattom, Trivandrum. Pope Benedict XVI approved the election and it was announced on 10 February at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Pattom, Trivandrum. Baselios Cleemis was enthroned the Second Major Archbishop-Catholicos of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church on 5 March 2007 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Pattom.

     Major Archbishop Baselios Cleemis ordinated Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in St.Peters Basalika, Vatican on 24 November 2012. He is the first bishop of the Malankara diocese and the fifth Keralite becoming cardinal.

                                                 

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