Managalore: The funeral of a Jacobite Syrian Bishop, who at 78 passed away in Kerala on Sunday, last, was held at St.Antony’s Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Cathedral, Jeppu here today. Polycorpus Mor Geeverghese, Bishop. Catholics Aboon Mor Baselios Thomus 1 led the funeral rites.
The late Bishop Veerghese was the director of Honnavar mission and had set up schools and Syrian churches on the coastal region.
He was born in 1933 and ordained Deacon in 1956 and priest in 1957. He was consecrated in 1978 and 1990 to higher positions as Bishop.
Devotees thronged in large numbers to pay their homage to pay him as late Bishop.