Khadki’s first Bishop arrives in city

Khadki’s first Bishop arrives in city

Reporters Name | CAMIL PARKHE | Friday, 17 April 2015 AT 01:07 PM IST

    

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Thomas Mar Anthonios Valiyavilayil, Kirkee-Pune exarchate

Khadki: Thomas Mar Anthonios Valiyavilayil, the designate first bishop of the new Kirkee-Pune exarchate (vicariate), arrived here on Thursday for the first time after he was appointed to the post by the Vatican last month.

The new bishop visited St Mary’s Syro-Malankara Catholic Church at Bhau Patil Road in Khadki, which will serve as the cathedral for the new diocese of Malayalam-speaking Syro-Malankara Catholics in six states of south India.

During the day, Bishop Thomas Mar Anthonios also called on Pune Bishop Thomas Dabre (Latin rite) at St Patrick’s Cathedral. He was accompanied by Bishop Jacob Mar Barnabas of the newly created diocese of St John Chrysostom of Gurgaon. The two bishops also visited Bethany Ashram at Ramwadi on Nagar Road.

Speaking to Sakal Times, Bishop Thomas Mar Anthonios said that as the first bishop of the Khadki-based Syro-Malankara diocese, his priority would be to strengthen the Malayalam-speaking community of the diocese.

“Holy Father Francis has fulfilled a long pending demand of the Syro-Malankara community to have a new exarchate in this region. We will conduct various religious activities for the devotees and also several charitable works for people belonging to various castes, faiths and creed,” he said.

“I have studied at the Pune-based Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth. The then bishop Valerian d’Souza had appointed me as the first chaplain and later as the parish priest of the Khadki-based St Mary’s Syro-Malankara Church. The same church site now has been chosen as the cathedral of the new exarchate. In a way, it is a home coming for me,” Bishop Anthonios said.  
“It will also be our endeavour to unite with non-Catholic churches like Orthodox, Jacobites and Marthomites, to foster Christian and also human unity,” he said.  

New Syro-Malankara exarchate at Khadki

New Syro-Malankara Exarchate at Khadki
Reporters Name | CAMIL PARKHE | Friday, 27 March 2015
Khadki: In a major decision, Pope Francis on Thursday has established a new Kirkee-Pune exarchate (vicariate) for Malayalam-speaking Syro-Malankara Catholics in south India having its cathedral at St Mary’s Malankara Catholic Church in Khadki.
Thomas Mar Anthonios Valiyavilayil will be the first bishop of the new exarchate.
With this Holy See announcement, Pune will now have two Roman Catholic bishops, the other being Latin Catholic rite Bishop Thomas Dabre.
Roman Catholic Church recognises 21 rites worldwide and three of them are in India, namely Latin rite, Syro-Malabar rite and Syro-Malankara rite.
Bishop Thomas Mar Anthonios is at present in Australia to lead the Holy Week celebrations of the Syro-Malarkara community there.
Bishop Thomas Mar Anthonios, belonging to the Order of the Imitation of Christ (OIC), was born in 1955 at Adoor. He was ordained a priest in 1980 and elected bishop of the curia in 2010. Apart from English and Malayalam, he speaks Italian, German, Hindi, Syriac and reads Greek and Latin.
The new Kirkee-Pune exarchate will be spread over six states in south India except Kerala. The states include Maharashtra, Goa, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and some parts of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The new exarchate will have  27 parishes. There are 21 priests dedicated to pastoral care, 13 convents of nuns and a dozen schools, including a college of higher education.
Fr Mathew Varikkattu, vicar of St Mary’s Malankara Church in Khadki, has expressed joy over the creation of the new  exarchate. The church has 80 families as parishioners.
On Thursday, Pope Francis also erected a new eparchy (diocese) of St John Chrysostom of Gurgaon with Jacob Mar Barnabas Aerath as the first eparchial bishop.
With this, the Vatican has granted the Syro-Malankara Church ecclesiastical authority for the whole territory in India.
Speaking to Sakal Times, Bishop Thomas Dabre welcomed establishment of the new exarchate in the city. “It is good news for the Catholics, especially the Syro-Malankara community in Maharashtra and other parts of south India,” he said.

Investiture ceremony
Thomas Mar Anthonios will be consecrated the first bishop of the new Kirkee-Pune exarchate at a ceremony to be held at the new cathedral in Khadki on Saturday, May 30. The ceremony will be attended by the Vatican  ambassador in India Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India president Cardinal Baselios Cardinal Cleemis Catholicos and Pune Bishop Thomas Dabre.

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Vatican announces new Syro-Malankara Exarchate at Khadki Pune

Vatican announces new Syro-Malankara Exarchate at Khadki Pune

Reporters Name | CAMIL PARKHE | Friday, 27 March 2015 AT 11:17 PM IST

    

Syro-Malankara Catholics, St Mary’s Malankara Catholic Church

Khadki: In a major decision, Pope Francis on Thursday has established a new Kirkee-Pune exarchate (vicariate) for Malayalam-speaking Syro-Malankara Catholics in south India having its cathedral at St Mary’s Malankara Catholic Church in Khadki.

Thomas Mar Anthonios Valiyavilayil will be the first bishop of the new exarchate.

With this Holy See announcement, Pune will now have two Roman Catholic bishops, the other being Latin Catholic rite Bishop Thomas Dabre.

Roman Catholic Church recognises 21 rites worldwide and three of them are in India, namely Latin rite, Syro-Malabar rite and Syro-Malankara rite.

Bishop Thomas Mar Anthonios is at present in Australia to lead the Holy Week celebrations of the Syro-Malarkara community there.

Bishop Thomas Mar Anthonios, belonging to the Order of the Imitation of Christ (OIC), was born in 1955 at Adoor. He was ordained a priest in 1980 and elected bishop of the curia in 2010. Apart from English and Malayalam, he speaks Italian, German, Hindi, Syriac and reads Greek and Latin.

The new Kirkee-Pune exarchate will be spread over six states in south India except Kerala. The states include Maharashtra, Goa, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and some parts of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The new exarchate will have  27 parishes. There are 21 priests dedicated to pastoral care, 13 convents of nuns and a dozen schools, including a college of higher education.
Fr Mathew Varikkattu, vicar of St Mary’s Malankara Church in Khadki, has expressed joy over the creation of the new  exarchate. The church has 80 families as parishioners.

On Thursday, Pope Francis also erected a new eparchy (diocese) of St John Chrysostom of Gurgaon with Jacob Mar Barnabas Aerath as the first eparchial bishop.

With this, the Vatican has granted the Syro-Malankara Church ecclesiastical authority for the whole territory in India.

Speaking to Sakal Times, Bishop Thomas Dabre welcomed establishment of the new exarchate in the city. “It is good news for the Catholics, especially the Syro-Malankara community in Maharashtra and other parts of south India,” he said.

Investiture ceremony

Thomas Mar Anthonios will be consecrated the first bishop of the new Kirkee-Pune exarchate at a ceremony to be held at the new cathedral in Khadki on Saturday, May 30. The ceremony will be attended by the Vatican  ambassador in India Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India president Cardinal Baselios Cardinal Cleemis Catholicos and Pune Bishop Thomas Dabre. 

Pune Pimpri Chinchwad Cemeteries - too small, too few, too far

Cemeteries - too small, too few, too far

 Sakal Times

CAMIL PARKHE

The number of cemeteries for the Christian community in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad have remained the same although the population of Christians in the city has increased during the past few decades. This has posed a problem for the members of the community who are forced to travel long distances to bury their dear ones.

Dapodi is the only burial ground available to the sizable Christian community in Pimpri Chinchwad and Khadki.

The other burial grounds are located at Hadapsar, Yerawada, and near the Holkar Bridge. Farther away, there is one more Christian cemetery in the jurisdiction of the Dehu Road Cantonment Board.

There is another cemetery – the War Cemetery in Khadki, but no fresh burials are allowed here. It was created to bury the remains of mostly Allied army combatants killed during the second World War and is more of a memorial.

All the cemeteries in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, barring the City Church cemetery at Nanapeth, are open to all Christians - Catholics as well as Protestants.

The burial grounds in Dapodi and Hadapsar have been existing since the British days and today these lands are owned by the civic bodies. These cemeteries are managed by committees having representatives of various Christian sects.

The permission for burial at the various cemeteries is given only on presentation of the death certificate issued by civic bodies and a letter from the representative of the church to which the deceased person belonged.

Due to the space crunch, the practice of selling land for construction of a tomb over the grave has been discontinued at all the cemeteries.

Encroachments on the periphery of burial grounds is another problem faced by almost all cemeteries as there are no resident care takers at these sites.

The area of the Dapodi cemetery shrunk a couple of years back when a portion of the graveyard was acquired for the widening of the Pune-Mumbai highway.

Fr Clement Raj, parish priest of St Ignatius Church in Khadki, said that Dapodi cemetery had also lost some land due to encroachments.

Unlike all other cemeteries, the City Church cemetery is used to bury only those belonging to the City Church parish and also Goans belonging to any parish in the city.

Explaining this peculiarity, City Church parish priets Fr Joe D’Souza said that the City Church, built in 1852, is the oldest church in the city and it also happens to be the only church in Maharashtra which came under the jurisdiction of the Goa diocese.

The cemetery was the property of the City Church and its parishioners were all Goans and therefore, for over a century, only Goans were buried there. In the recent past, this custom had created a conflict among the Goan and non-Goan parishioners of the church and therefore the cemetery was thrown open to all those belonging to this church.

Fr D’Souza said that due to the shrinking space at the burial ground, the church no longer permits permanent graves at the cemetery.

“The problem has become so acute that we do not allow anyone to build a permanent tomb even if the person is willing to offer Rs 50,000,” said the parish priest.

For the past few years, the City Church cemetery has been forced to follow the practice of using graves that are more than three years old for fresh burials. However, some very old tombs continue to exist in the cemetery. “It is difficult for the Church administration to seek removal of these very old graves as it is a sensitive issue,” said Fr D’Souza.

A Christian cemetery on an acre of land near Vadgaonsheri, given by the Pune Municipal Corporation, was dedicated by the Bishop of Pune on November 2, All Souls Day. The land on the banks of the Mula-Mutha was earmarked for cemetery for the past many years but no burials had taken place there due to some pending disputes, said Joe Kasbe, a local Christian leader.

Church welcomes cremation too

-Fr Joe Abraham, Chancellor of Pune diocese, said that the Catholic Church has no objection to people preferring cremation to burial as this solves the problem of space at the cemetery.

- There is no theological issue involved in this, Fr Abraham said, adding that “after cremation, the remains of the departed persons can be kept in niches on the compound walls of the cemetery.”

- Fr Abraham informed that at least three Catholics were cremated in Pune during the past decade. “The custom of cremation has been accepted more by Catholics in Mumbai,” he added.

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Ignatius Church, Khadki set for Vailankanni feast

Ignatius Church, Khadki set for Vailankanni feast
- CAMIL PARKHE Tuesday, 27 August 2013 - 10:52 AM IST
Tags: church, St Ignatius Church, festival, Mother Mary, Vailankanni feast, Khadki, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Camil Parkhe

PUNE: St Ignatius Church in Khadki has geared up to conduct the novena in honour of Our Lady of Vailankanni, starting on Thursday, August 29. The feast of the birthday of Mother Mary will be celebrated on Sunday, September 8. The novena prayers and the feast will also be celebrated in all churches in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad during the same period.

St Ignatius Church will be the main centre of the novena and feast of Our Lady of Vailankanni. Thousands of devotees from various churches in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad are expected to visit the church during the 11-day-long novena, masses and feast celebrations.

The annual novena and feast celebrations will be launched at St Ignatius Church with the hoisting of the flag by Bishop Emeritus Valerian D'Souza on August 29 evening. Bishop Thomas Dabre will be the main celebrant and preacher at the feast celebrations on September 8 evening.Like every year, a huge pandal has been erected at the church complex to accommodate the large number of people attending the religious services as a part of the novena and feast celebrations. There will also be various stalls selling religious articles, books and also a canteen run by the members of the St Vincent De Paul Society.

Everyday, main masses will be celebrated at 12 noon and at 6.30 pm. The masses will be conducted in English, Marathi, Tamil, Hindi, Konkani and Malayalam. This is the 41st year of the novena of Our Lady of Vailankanni at St Ignatius Church which was inaugurated in 1876.

At St Patrick's Cathedral, the flag will be hoisted on August 29 by Pune Jesuit Provincial Fr Bhausaheb Sansare while Bishop Emeritus Valerian D'Souza will celebrate the feast mass on September 8.

FEAST CELEBRATIONS

The novena and feast celebrations will be launched at St Ignatius Church with the hoisting of the flag by Bishop Emeritus Valerian D'Souza on August 29.

Khadki's St Ignatius Church set for Vailankanni feast

		Khadki church set for Vailankanni feast CAMIL PARKHE Sakal Times Monday, August 27, 2012 AT 11:10 AM (IST) Tags: church,   St Ignatius Chuch,   Vailankanni feast,   Mother Mary,   Khadki,  Pune,   Camil Parkhe PUNE: St Ignatius Church in Khadki is all set for the 10-day long novena in honour of Our Lady of Vailankanni, commencing on Wednesday. Six bishops from different dioceses are scheduled to concelebrate the masses at the church during the novena and the feast of Mother Mary. A huge pandal accommodating around 5,000 faithfuls has been erected near the 135-year-old church for the novena and the feast. Bishop Emeritus Valerian D'Souza will hoist the flag and concelebrate the mass on the first day of the novena on August 29 at 6.30 pm. Pune Bishop Thomas Dabre will be the main celebrant at the mass in Marathi on August 31 and also at the feast celebrations on September 8. The other bishops concelebrating the evening masses during the novena are Nashik diocese Bishop Lourdes Daniel (Hindi language, September 1), Belgaum diocese Bishop Peter Machado (September 2), Sindhudurg diocese Bishop Alwyn Barreto (Konkani, September 4) and Aurangabad diocese Bishop Edwin Colaco (September 5). Masses will also be held every day at 12 noon, followed by blessing of the sick. This is the 40th year that St Ignatius Church is celebrating the feast of Our lady of Vailankanni, the church's parish priest Fr Clement Raj told Sakal Times. Join Sakal Times on Facebook: www.facebook.com/SakaalTimes