{"id":26360,"date":"2011-04-01T13:21:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T17:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/varkey-cardinal-vithayathil-cs\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T13:21:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T17:21:50","slug":"varkey-cardinal-vithayathil-cs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/varkey-cardinal-vithayathil-cs\/","title":{"rendered":"Varkey Cardinal Vithayathil, C.SS.R., RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Varkey%20Vithayathil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Varkey Vithayathil.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/04\/Varkey Vithayathil-thumb-250x300-8886.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Varkey Vithayathil, 84, a Redemptorist, bishop, cardinal and Major Archbishop for the Syro-Malabar Church (in India) died suddenly today of a heart attack at 2pm Ernakulam time.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cardinal&nbsp;Vithayathil was ordained a priest in 1954 and ordained a bishop in 1996. In 1999, he appointed the Major Archbishop by Pope John Paul II. The same pope created&nbsp;Vithayathil a cardinal in 2001 giving him the title of San Bernardo alle Terme.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Trained in Canon Law at the Angelicum, Vithayathil taught the subject in the Redemptorist seminary. For a term he served as the Father Provincial of the Redemptorists of India and Sri Lanka and later serving as the Apostolic Administrator of a Benedictine abbey of monks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cardinal&nbsp;Vithayathil was a supporter of the 5th Marian doctrine, that of Mary&#8217;s role in salvation history as the co-redemptrix.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pope Benedict&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiovaticana.org\/en1\/Articolo.asp?c=474919\">telegram upon hearing of Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This will mean the Church will have a third election of a Major Archbishop in 2011. The Maronite and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Churches have just recently elected new heads.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varkey Vithayathil, 84, a Redemptorist, bishop, cardinal and Major Archbishop for the Syro-Malabar Church (in India) died suddenly today of a heart attack at 2pm Ernakulam time. Cardinal&nbsp;Vithayathil was ordained a priest in 1954 and ordained a bishop in 1996. In 1999, he appointed the Major Archbishop by Pope John Paul II. The same pope &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/varkey-cardinal-vithayathil-cs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Varkey Cardinal Vithayathil, C.SS.R., RIP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[2015,1712,2729,1931,2730],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}