H.G.Most Rev.Dr Juhanon Marthoma Metropolitan

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Also from a church publication:

19 February, 1969: Dr. Juhanon Mar Thoma writes in support of the Publication

of the Mar Thoma Church Directory. For many of our leaders the publication of a

Directory was “an impossible and unwanted” task. Some even claimed that it will

invite God’s curse like that of King David’s time when he counted his people (2

Samuel Ch.24). But Metropolitan Juhanon Mar Thoma strongly supported the

idea and the first Mar Thoma Church Directory was published in 1969.

7 January, 1965: Daniel Case - Final Judgement from Supreme Court. The case

O.S. No. 116 of 1955 filed in the District Court of Kottayam on 29 July 1955 by

(Plaintiffs) ‘Mr. Nina Daniel and others’ of Kurrumthottickal against (Defendants) ‘Most Rev. Juhanon Mar Thoma Metropolitan and others’ are known as Daniel Case. The main prayer of the Plaintiffs was to restrict Juhanon Mar Thoma from holding the post of

Metropolitan on the claims he rejected the faith of the Mar Thoma Church. After

10 years of litigation, judgement was given in favour of the Defendant Juhanon

Mar Thoma by the Supreme Court of India.

7 March 1990: Very Rev. P. J. Thomas passes away. Rev. Thomas was a deep

scholar and gifted linguist, besides being an ardent evangelist. He passed his B.

D. degree examination from United Theological College, Bangalore with

distinction and joined the ministry of the Church. The call came to him to take up

the mission work in Ankola when he was Vicar of the Kottayam Jerusalem Mar

Thoma Parish. He readily accepted the challenge and went to Ankola with his

family and established the Ashram there with two young graduates as fellow

workers, Mr. Philip Oommen (now Philipose Mar Chrysostom Metropolitan) and

Mr. John Thomas (late Rev. P. John Thomas). Rev. P. J. Thomas was

designated Vicar General in 1976 after he came back to Kerala. He passed away

on March 7, 1990.

7 August, 1893: Birth of Juhanon Mar Thoma Metropolitan. Dr Juhanon Mar

Thoma was the metropolitan of our Church from 1947 to 1976. He provided the

Church with the emblem having the motto: “Lighted to Lighten”. This has been

appreciated by many leaders of Christian churches.

5 December, 1974: Dr. Juhanon Mar Thoma lays foundation for the Callaway

Memorial Library. Miss. Callaway, a Church Missionary Society Missionary from

Australia, was the first principal of the Vanithamandiram (Tiruvalla) of our Sevika

Sanghom. She served the Sevika Sanghom and Vanithamandiram from 1925 to

1946, and after that she returned to her native place in Australia.