Coorilos Paulose

{{Short description|Indian saint}}

{{Infobox saint

| honorific_prefix=Saint

| name = Coorilos Paulose of Panampady

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| titles = Malankara Metropolitan

| birth_name = Paulose

| birth_date = 4 December 1850

| birth_place = Kandanad

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| residence = Thozhupaadan Kochuparambil

| death_date = {{death date text|14 December 1917}}

| death_place = Panampady St. Mary's Jacobite Syrian Church

| venerated_in = Syriac Orthodox Church

| canonized_date = 24 October 2008

| canonized_place = Panampady St.Mary's Jacobite Syrian Church

| canonized_by = Ignatius Zakka I Iwas

| major_shrine = Panampady St.Mary's Jacobite Syrian Church

| feast_day = 14 December

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| patronage =Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church

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{{Infobox Christian leader

| type = Metropolitan

| name = Mar Coorilos

| title = Malankara Metropolitan

| predecessor = Mar Dionysius VI

| successor = Mar Athanasius

| rank = Metropolitan

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Saint Coorilos Paulose of Panampady (Coorilos of Malankara),{{Cite web|title=Apostolic Bull of Ignatius Zakka I Iwas {{!}} Mor Coorilos Paulose of Panampady|url=http://www.syriacchristianity.info/pdf/MorCoorilosYuyakkim.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108150422/http://www.syriacchristianity.info/pdf/MorCoorilosYuyakkim.pdf|url-status=usurped|archive-date=November 8, 2020|access-date=2020-11-01}} also known as Kochuparambil Thirumeni or Panampady Thirumeni, was Malankara Metropolitan of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church in India from 1911 until his death in 1917.{{cite book |author=K Mani Rajan|date=2017|title=Holy Fathers of The Syrian Orient Entombed in Kerala|pages=111–116|url=http://rajanachen.com/files/eng3.pdf|publisher=JSC Publications}} He was canonized in 2008 by Ignatius Zakka I.

Life

Coorilos was born December 4, 1850, in Kandanad, Kerala, India,{{Cite web|title=Mor Koorilos Paulose Kochuparambil|url=http://www.syriacchristianity.info/bio/MorKoorilosKochuparambil.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509042429/http://www.syriacchristianity.info/bio/MorKoorilosKochuparambil.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=May 9, 2015|access-date=2020-10-30|website=www.syriacchristianity.info}} to Varkey(Father) and Anna Paulose(Mother)

He was ordained as a deacon by Coorilos Yuyakim,{{Cite web|title=St. Koorilos Yuyakkim|url=http://www.syriacchristianity.info/bio/StKoorilosYuyakkim.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102203638/http://www.syriacchristianity.info/bio/StKoorilosYuyakkim.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 2, 2015|access-date=2020-10-30|website=www.syriacchristianity.info}} the Reesh Episcopo of Malankara, at the age of nine, and studied under Pallathattu Geevarghese Qashisho, Stephanos and Koonappillil Geevarghese Qashisho.{{sfnp|K Mani Rajan|2017|pp=111-116}}

He was ordained as a priest by Mathews Athanasius, Malankara Metropolitan, and celebrated his first Eucharist at the Kandanad Church. He was re-ordained by Dionysious V, Malankara Metropolitan, due to a church dispute, and he later served as a vicar at Mulanthuruthy Church. When Coorilos was still a priest, he began a monastic life at Vettikkal Shrine alongside Geevarghese Ramban,{{sfnp|K Mani Rajan|2017|pp=111-116}} after Ignatius Peter IV—Patriarch of Antioch—ordained him as a monk (ramban) and declared Vettikkal Shrine as a monastery at the request of Geevarghese Gregorios of Parumala, which made it the first monastery of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Malankara. Coorilos served as manager of the Old Seminary, and took a prominent role in constructing the St. George Church of Trivandrum and St. Thomas Chapel of Manarcad, as well as founding several schools. He also visited the Holy Land with Geevarghese Gregorios during his time as a monk.{{cite book |last=Alexander|first=George |date=2018|title=Western Rites of Syriac-Malankara Orthodox Churches|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5-pjDwAAQBAJ&dq=kochuparambil&pg=PA45|page=45|publisher=OCP Publications}}

He was consecrated as a Metropolitan on 31 May 1908 by Ignatius Abded Aloho II—Patriarch of Antioch—together with Geevarghese Dionysius of Vattasseril, at the Monastery of Saint Mark, Jerusalem, according to the decisions of the regional synod of Malankara.{{sfnp|K Mani Rajan|2017|pp=111-116}}

In 1909, Geevarghese Dionysius became Malankara Metropolitan of the Malankara Syrian Church. However, in 1911 the church split into "Metran Kakshi" (or, Metropolitan faction) and "Bava Kakshi" (or, Patriarch faction) following disputes. The Patriarch Abded Aloho II issued an order of excommunication for Geevarghese Dionysius, who continued as the Malankara Metropolitan of the Metropolitan faction, which later evolved into the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.

Coorilos was elected as Malankara Metropolitan of the Patriarch faction on 30 August 1911 by the Syrian Christian Association at a meeting held at Aluva under the leadership of Ignatius Abded Aloho II, Patriarch of Antioch.{{sfnp|K Mani Rajan|2017|pp=111-116}}{{Cite web|title=Bishops|url=http://www.niranamdiocese.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=75|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004033537/http://www.niranamdiocese.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=75|url-status=usurped|archive-date=October 4, 2011|access-date=2020-10-30|website=www.niranamdiocese.org}}

Coorilos died on 14 December 1917.{{Cite web|title=Mor Koorilos Paulos|url=http://syriacorthodoxresources.org/Personage/Malankara/MKoorilosPKochuparambil.html|access-date=2020-10-30|website=syriacorthodoxresources.org}}{{sfnp|K Mani Rajan|2017|pp=111-116}}

Sainthood

Ignatius Zakka I, Patriarch of Antioch, declared him a saint on 24 October 2008 for being a holy father who had preserved the faith in the crisis of the Syriac Orthodox Church in India, and gave permission to remember the name of Coorilos Paulose in the Fifth Diptych.{{Cite web|last=Staff|date=2008|title=Paulose Mor Koorilose declared Saint|url=https://www.oneindia.com/2008/10/24/paulose-mor-koorilose-declared-saint-1224853479.html|work=Oneindia|access-date=2020-10-30|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Canonized Fathers in India {{!}} Malankara Archdiocese of The Syrian Orthodox Church In North America|url=https://www.malankara.com/node/215|access-date=2020-10-30|website=www.malankara.com}}{{sfnp|K Mani Rajan|2017|pp=111-116}}{{Cite web|title=മൂന്നു വിശുദ്ധരെക്കൂടി യാക്കോബായ സഭ കുർബാനയിൽ സ്മരിക്കും {{!}} Manorama Online|url=https://www.manoramaonline.com/news/kerala/2017/12/11/jacobite-church.html|access-date=2020-11-01}}

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