Geevarghese Ivanios
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Servant of God Aboon Geevarghese Mar Ivanios |
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| First Archbishop of Trivandrum and First head of the Syro Malankara Catholic Church. | |
Servant of God Archbishop Mar Ivanios (1882 - 1953)
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| Native name | ഗീവറുഗീസ് മാർ ഈവാനിയോസ് |
| Church | Syro-Malankara Catholic Church |
| See | Trivandrum, India |
| Appointed | 11 June 1932 |
| Predecessor | None (seat created) |
| Successor | Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios |
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| Ordination | 15 September 1908 by Vattasseril Dionysius |
| Consecration | 1 May 1925 by H H Baselios Geevarghese I Catholicos |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Geevarghese Panickeruveetil |
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21 September 1882 Mavelikkara, Kerala |
| Died | 15 July 1953 (aged 70) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala |
| Buried | St.Mary's Cathedral,Pattom,Trivandrum |
| Nationality |
 India
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| Previous post | Metropolitan Archbishop of Malankara Orthodox Church |
Archbishop Aboon Geevarghese Mar Ivanios (born 21 September 1882 as Geevarghese Panickeruveetil) was the first Metropolitan Archbishop of Trivandrum and the founder of the Reunion Movement in the Malankara Apostolic Church. He is the founder of Bethany Ashram order of monks and Bethany madom Order Of Nuns. He was the first M.A. degree holder in the Malankara Church. He also served as the Principal of the Kottayam M.D seminary High School and as a professor at the Serampore College.
Geevarghese Panicker was born in Mavelikkara, Kerala, India, on 21 September 1882 to Thomas Panicker and Annamma Panicker, a descendant of the tharavad of Panickervettil in Mavelikara within the erst-while Indian princely state of Travancore currently in the Alappuzha district of Kerala.
The Panickervettil family were honoured with the title of 'Mylitta Panicker' bestowed upon by the Maharaja of Travancore Marthanda Varma, Travancore Royal Family. Panicker's family lineage also include him being grandson of the Saint Thomas Christian family Polachirackal with their tharavad in Mavelikkara. The Polachirackal House held the highest-ranking hereditary title for a Christian family in Travancore being of nobility titled as Tharakan and were of the highest ranking Christian peer to the Maharaja of Travancore. The Polachirackal House through the Saint Thomas Christian Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is acknowledged by Pope Pius XI and continues to do so by the Holy See of the Vatican City as one of the oldest Saint Thomas Christian families. The House had evolved from accumulating one of the largest wealth through merchant trading from their oligopoly in black pepper commodity trading as part of the spice trade controlled by the Dutch East India during the age of discovery between the 16th and 18th centuries. The House's excessive wealth allowed them to become the court financiers to Marthanda Varma and financed the Kingdom of Venad during the Travancore–Dutch War in the 18th century against the Dutch East India Company. This culminated in funding the Battle of Colachel in 1741 leading to Marthanda Varma defeating of the Dutch East India Company which was the first loss of its kind by a European naval super-power in the Indian sub-continent. The House were signatories to the Treaty of Mavelikkara in 1753 contributing to the establishment of the Kingdom of Travancore, diminishing the role of the Dutch East India Company in the Indian subcontinent and leading to the rise of the Maharaja of Travancore Marthanda Varma and the Travancore Royal Family. Panicker had his early education in Protestant and government schools. From 1897 he attended M. D. Seminary High School, Kottayam. In 1899 he completed his matriculation education before which he received minor orders (of clerical life) on 20 September 1898.
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