The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC) also known as the Indian Orthodox Church (IOC) or simply as the Malankara Church,is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox Church headquartered in Devalokam,near Kottayam,India. It serves India's Saint Thomas Christian population. According to tradition,these communities originated in the missions of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. It employs the Malankara Rite,an Indian form of the West Syriac liturgical rite.
Thombrayil Uthup Kuruvilla is a politician from Kerala,India. He was born at Oonjappara,Kothamangalam,Kerala,on 13 September 1936,to Uthuppu and Mariyam. He did his Diploma in Civil Engineering. He is a well known Agriculturist and businessman. He got elected to Kerala Legislative Assembly consecutively in 2006 and 2011 from Kothamangalam constituency. Kuruvilla served as Public Works Minister in the government led by V. S. Achuthanandan for a short period.
John Mathai is a former Chief Secretary of Kerala,India. He belongs to the 1971 batch of Indian Administrative Service (IAS).
Joseph M. Puthussery is an Indian politician. He serves as senior leader of the Kerala Congress.
K. Jayakumar is an Indian civil servant,poet,and author. He was an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from Kerala who retired as the Chief Secretary of the Government of Kerala. He has also worked as lyricist,translator and screenwriter. He is the son of film director M. Krishnan Nair. He has served as the founding vice-chancellor of the Malayalam University.
The Malankara Varghese Murder Case is a case regarding the death of T. M. Varghese also known as Malankara Varghese,a member of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church's managing committee and a timber merchant on 5 December 2002. He was hacked to death by a gang outside a car workshop on main central road near Perumbavoor. Though the murder was initially described as a result of business rivalry,his relatives suspected involvement of a rival church faction. India's Central Bureau of Investigation on 9 May 2010 charged Father Varghese Thekkekara,a priest and manager of the Angamali diocese in the rival Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church with conspiracy in the murder and named him as the prime accused.
Baselios Marthoma Paulose II;30 August 1946 –12 July 2021) was the primate of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. He was ordained in 1973,consecrated in 1985 and enthroned as the 8th Catholicos of the Malankara Church and the 21st Malankara Metropolitan on 1 November 2010,succeeding Didymos I.
K. Babu is an Indian politician and the former Minister for Fisheries,Ports and Excise,Government of Kerala. He is the representative of Thripunithura constituency in Kerala from 1991 to 2016 and again from 2021.
Sir Dr. Mor Athanasious Eliyas is a Syriac Orthodox bishop. As of 2012 he was the Patriarchal vicar of Singapore,President of Antiochean Faith Movement in India and Vicar General of the St. Athanasius Cathedral at the Puthencuriz.
Baselios Marthoma Mathews III is the present Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church,serving as its primate. He was enthroned as the 22nd Malankara Metropolitan on 14 October 2021 and as the 9th Catholicos on 15 October 2021 at St. Peter and St. Paul's Church,Parumala,succeeding Baselios Marthoma Paulose II.
Jawed Usmani is a retired IAS officer. He also served as the Chief Information Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh. He was the Chief Secretary to the Government of Uttar Pradesh from March 2012 to May 2014.
Dr. Ajay Kumar is the former Defence Secretary of India and currently an advisor for electronics development projects. He is an Indian Administrative Service officer from the 1985 batch. Dr. Ajay Kumar is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and the University of Minnesota.
Jacob Thomas is a retired Indian Police Service officer,writer and researcher. He is popularly known as former Director of Vigilance &Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB),Government of Kerala,and a recipient of the Police Medal for Meritorious Service as well as the Newsmaker of the Year Award of Malayala Manorama. He retired on May 31,2020 as the head of Shoranur Metal Industries and spent the last day in office by sleeping on the floor. His 34 year police career attracted several controversies such as undisclosed property of over 50 acres in Tamil Nadu,encroached forest land of 151 acres in the name of his wife in Kodagu,Karnataka among many others.
Joy Vazhayil,also known as V. P. Joy,is an Indian poet,writer,researcher,and administrator. He is also known for books and research papers on the energy policy and also on philosophy of education,mind and metaphysics. He has published several literary works in Malayalam language,mainly poetic compositions.
Dr. P B Salim is an IAS officer of the 2001 batch belonging to the West Bengal cadre. He hails from the south Indian state of Kerala.
Sanjay Bhatia is the Upa-Lokayukta of Maharashtra and current head of the Lokayukta. He is the former Chairman of Mumbai Port Trust and Indian Ports Association. He is an Indian Administrative Service officer of 1985 batch who has served at various levels of the state and central governments in India.
Paul Antony is a senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from Kerala who retired as the Chief Secretary,Government of Kerala. He belongs to 1983 Batch. He is presently serving as the Chairman of Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation.
Yuhanon Meletius is the metropolitan bishop of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church's Thrissur Diocese in India. Following the death of Baselios Marthoma Paulose II in 2021,Meletius was one of the seven members of an administrative council that governed the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC).
