India: The Supreme Head of Indian Orthodox Church Moran Mar Baselios Marthoma Paulos II, died earlier today at 2.35 am. He was the 91st reigning Catholicos of the East.
His Holiness the Catholicos Baselius Marthoma Paulose II, who was undergoing treatment in the Critical Care Unit in St Gregorios Mission Hospital in Kerala’s Parumala village.
According to the medical bulletin of the hospital, His Holiness’s clinical condition had turned extremely critical since the morning of Sunday.
“Even with very high external oxygen support through artificial ventilation, oxygen saturation in the blood is could not be maintained. Respiratory failure turned refractory to treatment towards the evening,” the bulletin reads.
His Holiness was ailing from lung cancer since December 2019 for which he was receiving treatment from St Gregorios International Cancer Care Centre Parumala.
It further said that the Supreme Head of Indian Orthodox Church recovered from COVID-19 infection in February 2021, the post COVID lung complications worsened his health condition.
The funeral services will be held on Tuesday at the Catholicate Palace chapel in Devalokam in Kottayam district from 3pm.
Bawa Thirumeni was born on August 30, 1946, in Mangad, a village near Kunnamkulam in Thrissur district. The late Kollannur Iype and the late Pulikkottil Kunjeetty were his parents.
