Silver Jubilee of Episcopal Ordination
The Silver Jubilee of the Episcopal Ordination of Mar Ivanios was celebrated in 1951. On this occasion Pope Pius XII wrote to him "Venerable brother, health and Apostolic Benediction.... We always cherished the memory of that event when you, Mar Ivanios and Mar Theophilos, Syro-Malankara Bishops of the Antiochene Rite, together with many priests and faithful ... by divine grace happily entered into the bosom of the Holy Mother, the Catholic Church. We do know what great difficulties you had to pass through, what hardships you had to put up with, before and after the reconciliation..." Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant, Cardinal Secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches wrote, "Your fidelity to the Holy Father, your zeal, your spirit of sacrifice, your fortitude in difficulties and your apostolic activities nourished by intense faith and piety have enabled solid organization of Malankara Church which by its Catholic activities has become a beacon light of attraction and has added further luster to the church."
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