Category: OCP-MARP Updates

OCP-COS-MARP – 7/12/2020 Worldwide Purchase from Amazon Global HERE India Purchase from Amazon India HERE Global: The Second part of the highly acclaimed work ‘Western Rites of Syriac-Malankara Orthodox Churches’ is now available for purchase. Authored by Dr. Ajesh T READ MORE

George Alexander – Guest Contributor  (OCP-COS-MARP) – 30/10/2020 The opinion stated by Papa Francis on LGBT has become an interesting point of conversation in the public sphere amid the COVID-19 pandemic. He became the first Pope to endorse same-sex civil unions. However, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches have taken a stiff stand against LGBT issues. The Quest for a Western READ MORE

George Alexander – Guest Contributor – OCP-MARP A call to check the possibility for the creation of a Western Rite Orthodox Patriarchate may sound utopian, impossible, or even an impractical concept. However, personally speaking, I do not want the Eastern-Byzantine READ MORE

OCP-MARP – 14/10/2020 Malankara- India: The last quarter of 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the rediscovery of the St Gregorious Community in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, by Dr Ajesh T Philip – Head and Chief Research Officer – MARP). The READ MORE

OCP-MARP – 14/10/2020 Download Orthodox_ News Letter Vol 3 No 37 Global: Metropolitan Alvares Julius Western Rite Orthodox research Project has been featured in the official online newsletter of the Malankara Church (October 2020 issue, Vol.03, No: 37). The featured READ MORE

OCP-MARP – 8/10/2020 A rare document (booklet) on Metropolitan Alvares Julius titled ‘What Though the Spicy Breezes’ was gifted to the Research Board of the Metropolitan Alvares Julius Western Rite Orthodox Research Project (MARP). The document was written by the late lamented Mar Georgius I (Patriarch of Glastonbury, Catholicos of the West, and Sixth READ MORE

OCP -MARP – 21/9/2020 Canada: During the commemorative Mass held on 20th September 2020 (in the memory St  Alvares Julius), Msgr. Willard G. Dionne, the Coadjutor Bishop of the Christian Catholic Church Canada, mentioned the considerable importance of the Metropolitan READ MORE

OCP-MARP – 21/09/2020 Canada: The Christian Catholic Church commemorated the feast of St Julius Alvares (the late lamented Metropolitan-Archbishop of Ceylon, Goa, and India) during the Mass that was held on 20th September 2020. Msgr. Willard Dionne, the Coadjutor Bishop READ MORE

OCP-COS-MARP – 17/09/2020 Canada: The Reverend Willard Dionne was consecrated as the Coadjutor Bishop of the Christian Catholic Church Canada on September 13, 2020, at 10:00 AM in the Dignity Chapel, 180 Montreal Road in Ottawa.  Details of the Consecration Ceremony Bilingual Service, September 13, READ MORE

OCP-COS-MARP – 11/9/2020 An exclusive interview with His Beatitude Abba Seraphim –  VIIth British Patriarch and Primate of the British Orthodox Church – Metropolis of Glastonbury. Your Beatitude, please provide an overview of Orthodox Christianity and its historical relations with READ MORE