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His Holiness Baselios Marthoma Mathews II Cathojicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan completes eighty three years of age on January 30, 1998. It was on April 29, 1991 at Parumala Seminary that he was installed and enthroned as Catholicos of the East. He is the eighty ninth successor seated on the throne of St. Thomas as Catholicos. He is the sixth Catholicos in Malankara after the establishment of the Catholicate here in 1912. As Supreme Head of the Malankara Orthodox Church, he now assumes two titles "Catholicos of the East" and "Malankara Metropolitan".

The Catholicos consecrates Bishops for the Orthodox Church of the East, presides over the Episcopal Synod, declares its decisions and implements them, conducts administration as the representative of the Synod and consecrates the Holy Mooron (Oil).

The Malankara Metropolitan is the head of the Malankara Arch Diocese, the President of the Malankara Syrian Christian Association and the Managing Committee. The Prime Jurisdiction regarding the temporal eclesiastical and spiritual administration of the Malankara Church is vested in the Malankara Metropolitan subject to the provisions of the Church constitution.

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