India’s Syro Malabar Church convenes Synod to solve liturgy row

(UCA News Reporter).

Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil, the head of the crisis-ridden Eastern rite Syro Malabar Church, has convened an extraordinary synod of its bishops to solve the decades-old liturgy dispute in his seat of power in India.

In a June 3 communication to 65 bishops, Thattil said a special virtual meeting of the Synod, the top decision-making body of the second-largest Eastern rite Church, would be held to resolve the dispute.

The communication said the Church’s online synod, based in southern Indian Kerala state, is scheduled for two hours on June 14. 

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