St. Basil's Syriac Orthodox Church, Cleveland, Ohio

The Only Church Dedicated in the name of Saint Baselios Bava in the Heart of North America
Kothamangalam Cheriapally of North America ^(sm)

St. Basil's Syriac Orthodox Church, Cleveland, Ohio is the only Jacobite Church serving Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, Western New York State and Northeast Indiana and Northwest West Virginia. This church is part of the Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in North America and is in communion with Oriental Orthodox Churches and enjoys partial communion with Catholic Church. His Eminence Mor Titus Yeldho is the Archbishop & Patriarchal Vicar. The Archdiocese is under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Patriarch of Antioch & All The East and the Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church. The Church services are primarily conducted in Malayalam. The liturgy is interspersed with English and Syriac language, a dialect of Aramaic spoken by Lord Jesus. What is special about Syriac Orthodox Church? - video produced by BBC

Apostolic Easter Message - 2013 by HH Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas
Easter Message From HB Baselios Thomas I, Catholicose - 2013
Easter Message -2013- Archbishop HE Mor Titus Yeldho of the Malankara Archdiocese of United States
Lent Message (Bull) from His Eminence Eldho Mor Theethose-2013
Next Service: Holy Qurbana	Read the Latest Edition of Malankara World Journal here
Saturday, May 4, 2012 at 9 AM (Please note: The service is on Saturday and not Sunday) Time: 9:00 AM Location: St. Benedict Catholic School Lower Level - Monica Room (on the campus of St. Monica Catholic Church) 13623 Rockside Road Garfield Heights, OH 44125 (Take East entrance to lower level from the Parking Lot. Turn right at the bottom of the stairs (cafeteria.) Room/Hall on the right.) Directions Request Intercession Contact for more information: Robin Roy, Secretary, 440-821-4856 Passion Week Services: This year the Good Friday and Easter Services were held at Columbus, Ohio. Very Rev. Dr. Kunnath Geevarghese, MD was the chief celebrant. The event was held in conjunction with OMCC in Columbus. We had a good crowd from Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Louisville, KY, and Indianapolis, IN. Our first satellite service was a big success. so we can share this important church events with our friends in other parts of Ohio. Good Friday Services: Friday, March 29, 2013 Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Location: Faith Lutheran Church, 730 Collingwood Ave, Whitehall, OH 43213 Easter Service Saturday, March 30, 2013 Time: 4 PM-8 PM Request Intercession Contact for more information: Dr. Jacob Mathew, Secretary, 330-656-3264 Robin Roy, Treasurer, 440-821-4856	Up Coming Services Archdiocesan Family and Youth Conference: July 18-21, 2013 Dallas, TX The delegate meeting will be held on Thursday that will discuss important decisions regarding the future of the archdiocese. info at http://www.malankaraconvention.com
Patriarchal Center Project: Malankara Archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church in North America is planning to establish a Patriarchal Center. The initial plans call for a Cathedral, Conferencing Center, Facilities for a Theological Seminary and Dayaro. Theethose Thirumeni has appointed Rev. Fr. Joy John, Vicar of the St. Peters Church, Philadelphia, PA as the asst. Chairman for the project team. Saju Skaria, Phoenix, AZ is the Director of the project. A team is working under them to plan, find and acquire a Patriarchal Center. Our church is also involved in this project. St. Gregorios Cancer Hospital and Institute, Chelad, Kothamangalam One of a long time dream of our own Rev. Fr. Dr. Gheevarghese Kunnathu, MD was to establish a full fledged Cancer Hospital in Kerala. One of the obstacles standing on the way was to find a team to coordinate the work in Kerala. His dream will be materialized soon. The foundation stone for the new Oncology Hospital was laid by HB Baselios Thomas I in the property acquired for the Hospital in Chelad, near Kothamangalam on Saturday, April, 14, 2012. A trust to manage the project, Wisdom Health Charitable Trust, was registered. They are in the process of soliciting bids for the construction of the hospital building. The Hospital will be named St. Gregorios Cancer Hospital and Institute. This hospital will be the anchor for a Medical College, God Willing, soon. We congratulate achen and thank the almighty God for this blessing. More details in Malankara World. A website for the hospital is under construction.

Intercession from Baselios Church, from the Heart of North America

We are the only church in the heart of North America dedicated in the name of St. Baselios Bawa.

Since there are many people who have no access to a genuine Syriac Orthodox Church, Baselios Church is providing the opportunity for you to register the names of you and/or your loved ones to be remembered and prayed for by the celebrant priest (or Bishop) during our regularly scheduled services (including the church Day - the feast of St. Basil. Please register electronically. This service is free. But we request that you pray for our church.Register. (Register at least 24 hours before the service.)

Malankara World
A Service of St. Basil's Syriac Orthodox Church, Ohio

Malankara World's focus is on our families. We want to help our families. Since family is a microcosm of church, it will have everything that a church focused website will have. But there will be more. We will cover issues that are important to families. What are the things that keep our members awake at night? Is that about their children? taking care of old aged parents? Relationship with their spouses? Breakdown of marriage? Health issues? Balancing work, family and spiritual life? Managing stress?

We will use a combination of technology and harnessing the resources of our people within our church to do that. The website has currently over 8,000 articles with more than 80% of them indexed in Google. A weekly Malankara World Journal has published over 90 issues. This has subscribers in all corners of the earth. To learn more, visit Malankara World website

Baselios Church at The Malankara Archdiocese Silver Jubilee Convention

July 22-25, 2010, Somerset, NJ
www.MalankaraConvention.org

Baselios Church participated in a big way in this year's convention. Teams from our church competed in the Cultural Competition and in Choir Competition. We got a coveted spot in the historic 25-inmel qurbana. Our church members were the active members who served many injured and sick as part of the Emergency Medical Team. The official webmaster for the convention was our member and people could not say enough about the website. And the list goes on and on...

Dr. Jacob Mathew, Secretary of Baselios Church, Honored

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Silver Jubilee Convention is over. And what a convention it was! It was historic in every sense of the word. And Baselios Church, Cleveland was an active participant.

Our church was the only church from about half dozen churches that started in the archdiocese that actively participated in every aspect of the convention - from top leadership, to sponsorship, to participating in both the choir and cultural competitions. They were all capped by participation in the historic 25-inmel qurbana. Dr. Jacob Mathew was the altar assistant in altar #11. (This was a very coveted spot in the qurbana as everyone from the big churches, some with more than a quarter century of experience serving in the altar wanted to get a role out of the 25 available ones and were left standing at the steps of the altar platform. To make it more interesting (although I didn't know it at that time), Dr. Mathew was given the left most altar in the row. Our church gives big importance to the left side. The senior most occupies this coveted spot and the junior most occupies the right most slot. Most of the altars in front were manned by Rev. Deacons who come higher in spiritual hierarchy.) God indeed works in mysterious ways. There is more to this story. ....

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