Our Metropolitan
H. E. Dr. Mor Theophilose Kuriakose
H. E. Dr. Mor Theophilose Kuriakose was born on 1st February, 1966 in the Kodikuthiyil family of the Ooramana village (Ernakulum District, Kerala, India) to Mr. Cherian Varkey and Mrs. Saramma Varkey. His home parish is St.George Thabore Jacobite Syrian Church, Ooramana in the Kandanad Diocese.
His Grace did his schooling in Ooramana High School and graduation (B.A. Political Science) in St.Peter’s College, Kolencherry. In 1980, he successfully completed B.Th. from the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Theological Seminary, Udayagiri. In the meanwhile he was ordained as a Deacon by Late Lamented H.G. Mor Gregorious Geevarghese Metropolitan in 1989.
Later on he joined United Theological College in Bangalore for pursuing Bachelors in Divinity and fruitfully completed it in 1993.
Afterwards he served as a lecturer in the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Theological Seminary, Mulanthuruthy (Ernakulam District) for around three years (1993-1995). Concurrently he functioned as the Organizing Secretary of the ‘Syrian Orthodox Christian Student Movement’. In 1995 he went to Germany for higher studies. In Germany, His Grace mastered in German and Latin languages from the Ostkirchliches Institute and also received Doctor of Theology at the Catholic Faculty of the University of Regensburg. His thesis was on “Den Armen gehoert das Reich Gotttes. Lukanische Impulse fuer ein Dalit Theologie”. In 2002 he returned to India and continued as a lecturer of the M.S.O.T Seminary.
On 12th November 2002 he was ordained as a priest and on 29th September 2003 he was consecrated as a Metropolitan by H.B. Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas I. Since then he serves as the Resident Metropolitan of M.S.O.T. Seminary, along with various other responsibilities in the church.
Responsibilities: Resident Metropolitan and Professor of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Theological Seminary, India. Metropolitan and Patriarchal Vicar of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox church in Europe( Except UK & Ireland. President of the Ecumenical Office of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church. Chairman of the Media Cell of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church. Co-Chairman of the Catholic-Malankara Syrian Orthodox churches International Joint commission for Theological dialogue. Member of the Faith and Order Commission of the WCC. Member of the International Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue between Catholic and Oriental Orthodox churches. Member of the program committee of the Christian Conference of Asia. Central Committee member of the World Religions Forum Macedonia. Member of the Pro Oriente Forum Syriacum and Forum Colloquium, Vienna. Central Committee member of the International Ecumenical Bishops Conference of Fokolare Movement Italy. Visiting Professor of Universities in Europe and USA.