page_title: Geevarghese Ivanios
section_title: Priestly life
hierarchical_section_title: Geevarghese Ivanios / Priestly life
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Geevarghese Mar Ivanios Panicker (1882-1953), Erzbischof von Trivandrum, Indien
context_page_description: Aboon Geevarghese Ivanios was the first Metropolitan Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church and Major Archdiocese of Trivandrum.. He was the founder of Bethany Ashram order of monks and Bethany madom Order Of Nuns. He was the first M.A. degree holder in the Malankara Church. He also served as the Principal of the Kottayam M.D Seminary High School and as a professor at Serampore College.
context_section_description: He was ordained to the priesthood as P.T. Geevarghese on 15 September 1908 by Vattasseril Dionysius then the Malankara Metropolitan of Malankara Orthodox Church. Geevarghese was popularly known as M A Achan, as he was the first priest with an MA degree in Malankara.
  At the same time, he took the initiative to empower the Malankara Church with hierarchical autonomy. He became instrumental to erect Catholicate for the Malankara Church on 5 September 1912. After the establishment of Catholicate in 1912 Malankara Church divided into two, one under the leadership of Malankara Metropolitan Vatteseril Dionysius (bishop's party) and one under Anthiochan Jacobite Patriarch(Bava Party).  Fr.P.T Geevarghese was belonging to Bishop's party.
caption: Newly ordained Ivanios in 1908
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