Suresh Gopi visits Catholicos at Puthenkurisu
The Hindu
Actor and BJP leader Suresh Gopi visited the head of the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church in India, Catholicos Baselios Thomas I, on Saturday. Mr. Gopi visited the Catholicos at the Patriarchal Centre, Puthenkurisu, near Kochi.
Actor and BJP leader Suresh Gopi visited the head of the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church in India, Catholicos Baselios Thomas I, on Saturday.
Mr. Gopi visited the Catholicos at the Patriarchal Centre, Puthenkurisu, near Kochi. Metropolitan trustee Joseph Mar Gregorios and bishop Kuriakose Mar Theophilos were with the Catholicos during the visit. The BJP leader did not comment on the dispute between Jacobite and Orthodox groups in the Malankara Church, it is learnt.
Church sources said Mr. Gopi visited the Patriarchal Centre to invite the Catholicos to a conclave of bishops in Delhi, the date of which has not been finalised.
While residents are worried over deaths due to diarrhoea in Vijayawada, officials still grapple to find the root cause. Contaminated drinking water supplied by VMC officials is the reason, insist people in the affected areas, but officials insist that efforts are on to identify the disease and that those with symptoms other than diarrhoea too are visiting the health camps.