Indian priests boycott apostolic administrator amid liturgy dispute

Around 250 clergy of the Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly have declared Archbishop Andrews Thazhath ‘unfit’ for the position.

The recently appointed apostolic administrator of an Indian Syro-Malabar archdiocese is facing a priests’ boycott, in the latest twist of a decades-long liturgical dispute in an Eastern Catholic Church.

Archbishop Andrews Thazhath was declared “unfit” for the position by around 250 clergy of the Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly at a meeting on Oct. 18.

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