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Syro-Malabar Catholic Church

Vatican court rejects appeal over Indian Church land deals

The Vatican decree is the latest twist in a dispute over real estate transactions that allegedly lost the Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly $10 million and led to civil proceedings.

Luke Coppen
Apr 19, 2023
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The Church’s highest judicial authority has rejected an appeal to reexamine issues surrounding land deals that provoked uproar among Indian Catholics. 

Cardinal George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church. Rahul Payyappilly via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In a decree dated Jan. 31, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura dismissed…

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