On this day, December 24th 1990, I conducted my first ever Holy Qurbana as a Metropolitan. I was consecrated as the metropolitan of Thrissur diocese that was formed in 1982.
It seems people are happy that I am getting old There was another Birth Day felicitation hosted by the Abraham family in Rockland New York. But I honor and appreciate their love and care.
A new project of Thrissur Diocese is getting ready for inauguration. This is at Pazhayannoor near Chelakkara in Thrissur district were we will have a study center with a chapel.
Yuhanon Mor Meletius was born on 4th July 1954, the first-born child of M.J. Markose, a farmer and a social worker, and Saramma Markose in Ezhakaranad, Ernakulam district, Kerala.
H.G.Yuhanon Mor Meletius was schooled in Ezhakaranad Government Upper Primary School and Maneed Government High School.He took his Bachelor of Divinity [BD] and Master of Theology [MTh] in Old Testament from United Theological College, Bangalore. He took his second Master of Theology [ThM] and PhD Qualifying (Old Testament) from Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
He was ordained as Deacon on 30 January 1973 by Paulose Mar Philexinos, Metropolitan of Kandanadu diocese. He was ordained as a Priest on 23 May 1986 by Catholicos Baselius Paulose II of the Malankara Church (Jacobite Faction).His ordination as monk was on 22 December 1990 by Ignatius Zaka I, Patriarch of Antioch of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church.