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Mar Awgin Kuriakose selected new Metropolitan of Chaldean church

Patriarchal Administrator, Archdiocese of India, Bishop Mar Awgin Kuriakose, 48, has been selected as the new Metropolitan of Chaldean Syrian Church of the East. He was selected as Metropolitan after the retirement of Archbishop Mar Aprem at the age of 82 due to ill health.

Catholicos Patriarch Mar Awa III will ordain Bishop Mar Awgin Kuriakose as Metropolitan during his visit to India in January 2023.

The ordination of a Metropolitan is happening in India for the first time in the history of Chaldean Syrian Church of the East, according to a release in Thrissur.

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