Ousted Indian archbishop at center of liturgy dispute is hospitalized
Archbishop Antony Kariyil says he was forced to resign in July after a struggle that left him ‘physically and mentally exhausted.’
The archbishop at the center of a bitter liturgical dispute in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church is recovering in hospital after suffering an “episode of seizure.”
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of 72-year-old Archbishop Antony Kariyil as archiepiscopal vicar of Ernakulam-Angamaly on July 30.
An Aug. 30 statement by a private hospital in India’s sou…