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Syro-Malabar Catholic Church

Indian archbishop blocked from entering cathedral amid liturgy dispute

Protestors in India stopped their archbishop from entering the cathedral Sunday morning, as a liturgy dispute roils the Syro-Malabar Church.

Luke Coppen
Nov 28, 2022
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Indian archbishop blocked from entering cathedral amid liturgy dispute

Indian Catholics prevented an archbishop from entering a cathedral on Sunday to celebrate the “uniform mode” of the Syro-Malabar Church’s Eucharistic liturgy in the latest flare-up in a ferocious decades-long liturgical dispute.

Archbishop Andrews Thazhath, the apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, attempted to enter St. Mary’…

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