Geevarghese Mar Timotheos (2 February 1928 – 4 June 2019) was an Indian

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Bishop of Tiruvalla.

Biography

Geevarghese Chundevalel was born on 2 February 1928 in the family of the Malankara Orthodox priest Jacob Chundevalela. Geevarghese's family adopted Catholicism when he was in high school. In 1943 he entered the junior seminary of the Archieparchy of Tiruvalla, after which he was sent to the Papal Seminary in

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for philosophical and theological education. Timotheos was ordained on 24 August 1953. He continued his education in

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. In 1967 he was appointed rector of the seminary, where he served for thirteen years. In 1980 he became vicar of the Cathedral of Saint John in

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. In 1984 Isaac Mar Yoohanon appointed him Bishop of Tiruvalla and made him protochancellor of his diocese. After the death of Isaac Yoohanon in March 1987 he was elected administrator of the diocese and offered to the

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as a candidate for the episcopal office. On 6 August 1988 after approval of his nomination he was ordained

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Benedict Mar Gregorios Benedict Mor Gregorios (1 February 1916 – 10 October 1994) was the second metropolitan archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. Life Gregorios or "Thangalathil Thirumeni" was born and raised in the Malankara Orthodox Church in Kalloo ...

. On 29 March 1993 the Holy See accepted his retirement to a small village near Tiruvalla. He died on 4 June 2019 in Tiruvalla, at the age of 91.

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