DR.

THOMAS MOR ATHANASIUS (NOW IN ORTHODOX CHURCH) RECENTLY CELEBERATED HIS 30 TH YEAR
OF CONSECRATION BY H.B BASELIUS PAULOSE II CATHOLICOS OF BLESSED MEMORY

ALSO ATTACHING PHOTO OF ORDINATION AS RAMBAN BY PERUMPALLY THIRUMENI

LATE CATHOLICOS & PERUMPALLY THIRUMENI STILL LIVES IN THE HEARTS OF LAKHS OF BELIEVERS.
THE SAME RESPECT MOR ATHANASIUS ALSO WOULD HAVE RECEIVED IF H.G HAD STUCK TO THE OATH
TAKEN AT THE TIME OF CONSECRATION.

In olden times Metropolitans were elected from Rambans who were well trained in monastic way of life.
Now Metropolitans are directly elected from unmarried priests. The church doesn’t want to discontinue
the good old traditions and practices. So elected priest are made Rambans for few days and then made
Metropolitans.

PHOTO OF TWO KNANAYA DECONS - Dn. M.A KURIAKOSE CHERAYIL & Dn. M.K THOMAS
MANALITHRA WITH THEIR MALPAN MOUSSA SALAMA RAMBAN TAKEN IN 1957

MOUSSA SALAMA RAMBAN CAME TO MALANKARA IN 1951 AND SERVERED AS THE PRINCIPAL IN THE
VYITHIKA SEMINARIES AT ALUVA AND MANJINIKKARA. DURING HIS STAY RAMBAN LEARNT
MALAYALAM AND USED TO DELIVER SPEECHES TO THE FAITHFUL WITH EASE. HE ALSO WROTE BOOKS
ON THE NATURE OF JEASUS’S DIVINITY, ABOUT 8 DAY LENT OF MOTHER MARY & BOOK ON SPEECHES
FROM EVANGELION. LATER AFTER LEAVING MALANKARA IN 1959 WAS CONSECRATED AS A
METROPOLITAN WITH THE NAME MOR CRISOSTOMOS. SEVERED IN COUNTRIES LIKE SWITZERLAND
BRAZIL ETC SUCCESSFULLY AS A MISSIONARY BISHOP UNTILL HIS DEATH . MALANKARA CHURCH WONT
FORGET HIS GRACE SERVICE & LET HIS PRAYERS WILL BE WITH US.