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OUR  CHURCHES   &  SERVICES   IN    UK
Regular services are held in Aberdeen, Bristol,  Birmingham, Belfast, Cambridge, Dublin, Edgware( North London) Liverpool, Manchester, Poole, Sheffield, Sunderland.

ST. Thomas Indian Orthodox  Church,  North  West  London

Contact. Fr. George Joy:02084223882
 

St. Stphen'S Indian Orthodox Church, Birmingham.( Every Third Sunday 12 Noon)

Worship at , St. Francis Church (chapel) University of Birmingham Campus, Edgbaston Park Road, Edgbaston,B15 2TT     

Church Secretary: Mr. Thomas Philip (Promod) Tel- Resi: 0121 382 2758,    Mob: 07932 569849

ST. THOMAS INDIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH , Cambridge (Service 2nd Saturday  10 AM)

Worship At: St. Luke's Methodist Chapel, Church lane, Papworth, CB3 8QN

Contact Fr. Abraham Thomas 02086919456,  Vicar@indian-orthodox.co.uk

Indian Orthodox Church, Manchester ( Last Sunday of the month 2PM)

 Worship at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, Lomont Road, Manchester

Contact. Fr. Happy Jacob, 217 Skipton Road,  Harrogate, North Yorkshire,HG1 3EX

Tel:01423 501876 Mob:07863562907.

St.Thomas Indian Orthodox Church, Liverpool ( First Sunday of the month 2PM)

Worship at Stoneycroft Methodist church ,Greenfield Road, Liverpool L13 3BN

Contact Fr. Happy Jacob, 217 Skipton Road,  Harrogate, North Yorkshire,HG1 3EX,Tel:01423 501876 Mob:07863562907

Indian Orthodox Congregation, Sunderland ( First Saturday of  the month 10 AM),

Worship at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Mill Field street, Sunderland SR4 6HP

Contact Fr. Happy Jacob , 217 Skipton Road,  Harrogate, North Yorkshire,HG1 3EX

Tel:01423 501876 Mob:07863562907

Indian Orthodox Congregation, Aberdeen

Worship at St. Peters Catholic Church. Justice street, Aberdeen

Contact Fr. Happy Jacob 

St. Thomas Indian Orthodox Church, Poole, Dorset (service every 3rd Saturday)

 Worship at: British Orthodox Church, 1 Osborne  Road, Winton, BOURNEMOUTH,BH9 2JJ

Contact Fr.Varghese Mathew.Tel:01392259256/07883037761

St.Mary's Indian Orthodox Church,  Bristol 

Worship at St Vincent Depaul Church,Embleton, Southmead

Contact Fr. Varghese Mathew: Flat 2, 66 Old Tiverton Road, Exeter,Devon, EX4  6NG

Tel:01392259256/Mob:07883037761

Indian Orthodox Congregation, Belfast : contact Fr.T.George

ST.Thomas Indian Orthodox Church, Dublin

Worship at St. Meaulruains Church, Tallaght, Co. Dublin.

contact Fr. Koshy Vaidyan, Tel:  00353 87 9407791 . Mob:0876432250 ;

Secretary Mr. John Mathew Tel:0871331189

Charity Projects:

The Malankara Orthodox Church Mission Board is an organization started to coordinate and organize the mission activities of the Malankara Orthodox Church. The major undertakings are:

• Thomas Mission Centre - Neyyattinkara - Village Development and Children's Home
• Karunya Guidance Centre - Thiruvanandapuram - A Home for poor cancer patients during treatment 
• Karunya Vishranti Bhavan
  Kattela, Sreekaryam.
  Trivandrum 695 017
  phone: 0471 2596418
  Visranthi Bhavan - Thiruvanandapuram - A centre to rehabilitate terminally ill cancer patients
• Assistance Foundation - To help poor families for the marriage of their children
• Aid Foundation - To help poor people for treatment
• A Heart Foundation - Primary aid for heart treatment
• Pauls Mission Training Centre - Mavelikkara - To train lay missionaries of the Church
• Building Aid Fund - To build homes for the poor
• Loan Fund - Loans to the needy for educational purposes
• Widows Aid Fund - A fund to help widows in need
• Education for All Kids of Indian (PEAK) - To have basic literacy.
• Association for Mission Studies (NAMS) - To promote missionionary orientation in the Church
• Message - Mobile missionary unit for evangelism
• Thomas Mission Centre - Haripaadd - Mission Centre and Boy's Home.
• Geevarghese Dionatius (MGD) Bala Bhavan Karunagiri Panayampala - Karukachal - Boys Home and Orphanage
• Paul's Ashram and Boys Home - Puthuppadi, Kozhikode
• Paul's Convent and Girls Home - Puthuppadi, Kozhikode
• Gregorios Balagram - Yacharam, Andhra Pradhesh - Center for leprosy free male children of lepers
• George Balikagram - Dehu Road, Poona - Centre for leprosy free female children of lepers
• Mission - Orissa - Medical assistance and village development among tribal and rural
• Paul�s Children's Home - Ittarsi, Madhya Pradesh - Orphanage
• Mission - Rourkela - Medical Mission
• Mar Gregorios Karunya Nilayam, P.B. No : 3,  Gandhi Nagar P.O., Kottayam - 686008.

Further projects supported by the Board are:

• Trinity Disabled Children's (Boys) Home - Thiruvanandapuram of the Cross - Mission and Evangelism
• Mission - Tamil Nadu - Orphanage
• Mission - Mission and Evangelism
• Mission - Karnataka - Mission and Evangelism
• Mission - Mission and Evangelism
• Mission - Orphanage and Village Development 

Please remember these projects and donate generously

DIOCESAN OFFICES

His Holiness Moran Mor Baselios Mor Thoma  Didimos I
(Catholicos of the East and the Metropolitan of Malankara)
Catholicate Palace
Devalokam,
Kottayam 686 038
Kerala, India.
Tel:   +91 481 2574323, +91 481 2578500,  +91 481 2578234
Fax:  +91 481 2570569

AMERICAN DIOCESE -H.G MATHEWS MAR BARNABAS
Office : Indian Orthodox Church Centre
80-34 Common Wealth BLVD, Bellrose,
New York - 11426    Ph. 718   470   9844; Fax:7184709219
Secretary : Rev.Fr.K.G.Philipose, Ph. 7188996554

Auxilliary Bishop of America H.G Mar Nicholaos Zachariah
13 Pelham Ave. # 5 Nanuet, NY 10954
Tel: (845) 627-5816/Fax: (845) 627-0850
Email. sabha@optonline.net

ANKAMALY (W) DIOCESE �H.G PAULOSE MAR PACHOMIOS
Office :  Thrikunnathu Seminary, P.B.61,   Alwaye - 683 101   Ph. 0484   624339
Secretary :Ph. 0484   2623995/2 633995

ANKAMALY (E) DIOCESE-H.G.Ougen Mar Dionysius

Metropolitan of Ankamaly East and Idukki
Bethsaida, Vengola, Perumpavoor, Ernakulam, India
Tel: +91 484 2593463, +91 484 2525937, +91 486 882248

BOMBAY DIOCESE -H.G.GEEVARGHESE MAR KURILOSE
Office : Orthodox Church Centre, Sector X, Vashi,
New Bombay - 400 703   Ph. 022 27663427/FAX. 2 7650876 E-mail:orthodox77@hotmail.com
Secretary : Rev.Fr.Thomas Varghese

CALCUTTA DIOCESE H.G Dr. Stephanos Mar Theodosius
Office : St.Thomas Asram, P.B.24, Kailash Nagar,
Bhilai, Durg (M.P)   Ph. 0788 2285309Fax.2286882
Secretary : Rev.Fr.Dr.Abraham Oommen

CANADA - UK - EUROP DIOCESE: -H.G.Dr.THOMAS MAR MAKARIOS

Alma College, 614 W.Superior Street, Alma, MI 48801, USA
Tel: 1-9894662613

Dio.Secretary:Rev.Fr.Philipose Philip.Tel:1-7818996554

CHENGANNUR DIOCESE: -H.G.THOMAS MAR ATHANASIOS
Office : Bethel Aramana, Chengannur - 689 121
Ph. 0479 2 453310 /2 451331

DELHI DIOCESE:- �H.G.JOB MAR PHILOXENUS
Office : Delhi Orthodox Church Centre
Thuglaqabad Instituional Area, New Delhi - 110 062
Ph. 01129956417/29955203Fax.29958975
Secretary : Rev.Fr.M.C.Paulose

IDUKKI DIOCESE:- H.G.Ougen Mar Dionysius
Office : Gethsemon Aramana, Chakkupallom, Kumily - 686509
Ph. 04868282248
Secretary : Fr.K.S.Zacheriah
Malankara Church Coffee Estate, Azhutha, Peermade
Ph. 0486   332195
KANDANAD (W) DIOCESE:- H.G. MATHEWS MAR SEVERIOS
Office : Mar Pachomius Mount, Meenpara - 682 308
Ph. 0484 2760286/2 763025
Secretary : Very Rev.Fr.Johns Abraham, Konattu, Pampakuda
Ph. 0485   2273133

Kandanad East H.G Dr. Thomas Mar Athanasios
Bishop's House, Muvattupuzha, India
Tel: +91 485 2832401, +91 485 2833401

KOCHI DIOCESE:- � H.G.  ZACHARIAS MAR ANTHONIOS
Office : Zion Seminary, Koratty East, Chalakudy-680 308
Ph. 0488 2732023/2734818
Secretary : Rev.Fr.K.T.Elias;Tel:04842740822

KOLLAM DIOCESE:- H.G. MATHEWS MAR EPIPHANIOS
Office : Bishop�s House, Cross Jn., Kollam 691 001
Ph. 0474   2743535 /2 746900 / Fax: +91 474 242509
Secretary : Rev.Fr.K.T.Varghese;Ph. 04762830778

KOTTAYAM DIOCESE �H.G.GEEVARGHESE MAR IVANIOS
Office : Kuriakose Mar Gregorios Diocesan Centre
Kottayam - 686 001 Ph. 0481   2564329/481 2 505431 /91 4812 462629, +91 481 2462099
Secretary : Rev.Fr.P.K.Zacheriah
Ph.  0481  2701462

KOTTAYAM CENTRAL DIOCESE
Office : Catholicate Aramana, Devalokam, Kottayam - 686 038
Ph. 0481 2578234   2 578499   2570569
Secretary : Rev.Fr.Mohan Joseph

KNANAYA DIOCESE
The Diocese is now directly administered by the Malankara
Metropolitan.

KUNNAMKULAM DIOCESE H.G Paulose Mar Milithos
Office : Bishop�s House, Arthat, Kunnamkulam - 680 521
Ph. 04885223001/fax.224001
Secretary : Rev.Fr.V.I.Simon, Vazhappilly, Pazhanji Ph. 0488  574392

MADRAS DIOCESE �H.G.YAKOB MAR IRENAIOS
Office : 56 Surapet Main Road, Vinayaka Nagar,
Madras - 600 099   Ph. 044   25561897  /2 5560645
Secretary : Rev.Fr.M.K.Kurian

MALABAR DIOCESE �H.G.THOMAS MAR THIMOTIOS

Assistant.H.G.Zacheriah Mar Theophilos
Office : Mount Hermon, R.E.C. P.O., Kozhikode-673  601
Ph. 0495   2287278 / fax.0481 2578500
Secretary : Rev.Fr.Varghese Punnamkombil

MAVELIKARA DIOCESE:H.G. PAULOSE MAR PACHOMIOS

Malankara Syrian Seminary,Thazhakara P.O,
Mavelikara, Kerala, India - 690102

NIRANAM DIOCESE �H.G. GEEVARGHESE MAR OSTHATHIOS
Assistant>H.G.Dr.Yuhanon Mar Chrysostomos

Office : Bethany Aramana, Tiruvalla - 689 101
Ph. 0469  2701357/2603357/2302473/fax.2342709

Secretary : Rev.Fr.Alexander Abraham
Ph.  0473    2682188

SULTAN�S BATHERY DIOCESE- H.G.KURIAKOSE MAR CLEMIS
Office : Nirmalgiri, Poomala, S.Bathery - 673 592
Ph.  04936 220969
Secretary : Rev.Fr.T.P.Mathew

THUMPAMON DIOCESE �H.G.PHILIPOSE MAE EUSEBIOS
Office : St.Basil Aramana, Pathanamthitta-689 645
Ph.  0468 2222243/     2325942
Secretary : Rev.Fr.Titus George

Trivandrum DIOCESE-H.G. Gabrei Mar Gregorios
Office : Orthodox Church Centre, Ulloor, Medical College P.O., Trivandrum - 695 011     Ph. 0471 2442509
Secretary : rev.Fr.Baby Thomas,

THRISSUR DIOCESE-H.G.Dr. YUHANON MAR MILITHOS
Gethsemon, Mannuthy, Thrissur, India - 680 651
Tel: 0487 2371039/ Fax.0487 23741748/

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Orthodox Theological Seminary
P.B. No. 98,
Kottayam - 686 001
Kerala, India.
Tel:  +91 481 2566526
+91 481 2568083
91 481 2568500
Fax: +91 481 2302571
principal@otsindia.org


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CURRENT STATUS

Our Church has been recognized by all world Christian denominations -- Roman Catholic, Protestants, the Eastern and the Oriental Orthodox Churches -- along with the World Council of Churches -- as an independent, indigenous, autocephalous Church. Our Church is all over the world. In Kerala itself, one of the smallest states of India, we have sixteen Dioceses with Metropolitans under the Catholicos cum Malankara Metropolitan. 

Outside Kerala, we have Dioceses in Madras, Calcutta, Bombay, and New Delhi. 

Outside India, we have the Diocese of America, the Diocese of Canada and the United Kingdom. 

Thus we have faithful followers, clergy, bishops, parishes, and dioceses all over Asia, Europe and North America -- all over the world

Members 2,400,000 

Parishes 1,395

Chapels & Worship Centers 205 

Deacons 127

Priests 1,160 

Cor Episcopas 60 

Rembans 20 

Bishops 25 Dioceses 22

updated 1/4/07
any questions / commends welcome: malankara@indian-orthodox.co.uk

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