Gregorios of Parumala

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Geevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala (15 June 1848 – 2 November 1902), also known as Parumala Thirumeni, was a prelate who served as the Metropolitan of Niranam, Thumpamon and Kollam in the Malankara Church. Parumala Thirumeni became the first person of Indian origin to be canonised as saint. On 2 November 1947, Catholicos Baselios Geevarghese II of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church declared Mar Gregorios as a saint. On 20 October 1987, Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I, the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, canonized Mar Gregorios in order to be recited in the diptychs for all parishes of the Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church around the world.

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