KOLLAM; Feb 9, 2009: Mathews Mar Epiphanios, metropolitan of the Kollam diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Church, passed away at a private hospital here at 11.15 a.m. on Monday. He was 81. Mar Epiphanios had been admitted to the cardiac care unit of the hospital for two weeks.
The funeral rites will be held at the Metropolitan chapel on Tuesday. The ‘nagari kanikkal’ in connection with the funeral rites will begin at 10 a.m. and the funeral service at the chapel, at 12 noon. People from all walks of life arrived at the chapel to pay their last respects to the metropolitan.
Mar Epiphanios was born at Chenkulam near here on November 25, 1928. After schooling at Chathannur he did his Intermediate at Tirunelveli and graduated in physics from Thiruvananthapuram. He was ordained sub-deacon in March 1957 and in April he was ordained deacon. In 1958 he was ordained priest and served at Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram, Punalur, Vazhuvady, Kottapuram and Arunoottimangalam. He also served as teacher in various schools and was chosen secretary of the Kollam diocese three times. In 1985 he was consecrated as episcopa with the name Mar Epiphanios by the then Catholicos of Malankara Orthodox Church. In 1985 he was made assistant metropolitan of the Kollam diocese and in October 1991 enthroned as full time metropolitan. He had served as metropolitan of the Thiruvananthapuram diocese from 1999 to 2004 and president of the Orthodox Sunday School Association.
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