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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox Christian leader<br />
| name = Geevarghese Mar Ivanios<br />
| honorific_prefix = His Grace<br />
| image = Geevarghese Mar Ivanios (Malankara Orthodox).jpg<br />
| title = [[Kottayam Orthodox Diocese|Metropolitan of Kottayam]]<br />
| church = [[Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church]]<br />
| consecration = May 15, 1985<br />
| birth_name = George<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|11|14}}<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|04|12|1940|11|14}}<br />
| buried = Mar Baselios Dayara, Njaliyakuzhy, Kottayam<br />
| alma_mater = [[Oxford University]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Geevarghese Mar Ivanios''' (14 November 1940 – 12 April 2013) was a Metropolitan of the [[Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/geevarghese-mar-ivanios-passes-away/article4610525.ece |date=9 June 2013 |work=[[The Hindu]] |title=Geevarghese Mar Ivanios passes away<br />
}}</ref> He was an eminent theologian, writer, and spiritual teacher of the Church.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2021/07/13/catholica-bawa-drew-spiritual-power-from-silent-meditation.html |date=13 July 2021 |work=[[OnManorama]] |accessdate=3 June 2025 |title=HH Baselios Marthoma Paulose II drew spiritual power from silent meditation}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
George was born to K. George and Annamma on 14 November 1940 in [[Madurai]]. His parents were [[Mar Thoma Syrian Church|Mar Thoma Protestants]], and the family relocated to [[Kollam]] when George was four. During his college days, he drew close to the [[Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church]] and developed a personal relation with Met. Mathews Mar Coorilos of Kollam (later [[Baselios Marthoma Mathews II]]).<ref>{{cite web |last=Varghese |first=Jacob |date=3 April 2021 |title=LL HG Geevarghese Mar Ivanios – Apr 12 / Man of Unceasing Prayer – Radiance of Orthodox Spirituality and Monasticism |url=https://oneinchrist.in/ll-hg-geevarghese-mar-ivanios-12-april-i-8th-commemoration/ |website=oneinchrist.in}}</ref> Shortly afterwards, at the age of twenty-one, George received chrismation and became a member of the Church. He was ordained as a deacon in March 1963 by Mar Coorilos, and left for England, where he lived among the [[Society of St John the Evangelist|Cowley Fathers]] and obtained M.A. in Christian Theology from the [[Oxford University]].<ref name=":0">{{cite book |chapter=Visudhiyude Oru Harithakalam |last=Zacher |editor=T. J. Joshua |date=2014 |title=Visudhiyude Oru Harithakalam |publisher=Baselian Books |pages=25-26}}</ref><br />
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==Priesthood==<br />
He returned to Kerala in 1971 after being invited by Philipose Mar Theophilos to teach Hebrew, Syriac, and Greek at the [[Orthodox Theological Seminary, Kottayam]]. George was ordained as priest by Mar Coorilos in December 1973 at the Seminary, where he taught for seven years.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last=George |first=K. M. |date=2024 |title=Oru Sanyasiyude Saundarya Darsanam |publisher=Sopana Academy |page=8}}</ref> Diagnosed with cancer in 1978, he was treated and cured at [[Cancer Institute (WIA)|Adyar Cancer Institute, Chennai]]. In March 1979, he was ordained as a hieromonk (''ramban'') by [[Baselios Marthoma Mathews I]].<ref name=":1"/><br />
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The Malankara Association on 28 December 1982 in Thiruvalla elected K. G. George ''Ramban'' along with four others to the office of the episcopate. Subsequently, on 15 May 1985, he was consecrated as Geevarghese Mar Ivanios at St. Mary's Orthodox Cathedral, Puthiyacavu, and appointed as [[Kottayam Orthodox Diocese|Metropolitan of the Kottayam Diocese]] on 1 August 1985.<ref name=":0"/><br />
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==Death==<br />
Mar Ivanios died on 12 April 2013. The funeral service led by [[Baselios Marthoma Paulose II]] took place on the next day, at Mar Baselios Dayara, Njaliyakuzhy. <br />
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==Works==<br />
* മൗനത്തിന്റെ ലാവണ്യം (''Maunattiṉṟe Lāvaṇyaṁ''; "Beauty of Silence").<br />
* നിർലേപം (''Nirlēpaṁ''; "Untaintedness"). <br />
* ഹൃദയശുദ്ധീകരണം (''Hr̥dayaśuddhīkaraṇaṁ''; "Purification of the Heart").<br />
===Translations===<br />
* ''The Beauty of Silence'', translated by Rincy Raju (Kottayam: Mashikkoottu, 2023).<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church bishops]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Oriental Orthodox bishops]]<br />
[[Category:21st-century Oriental Orthodox bishops]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Christian theologians]]<br />
[[Category:1940 births]]<br />
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