Kerala: Baselios Marthoma Poulose II, Catholicos of the East and Supreme Head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, passed away on Monday morning after a prolonged illness. He was also suffering from cancer and breathed his last at the hospital of the Church. He breathed his last at 2.35 am at a private hospital in Pathanamthitta.

The 74-year-old Metropolitan had been heading the Church since 2006 and will be remembered as the one who was instrumental in giving voting rights to women in their home parishes. The mortal remains will be kept for a public exhibition at the Parumala church till 7 pm on Monday and the funeral will be held at the MOSC headquarters at Devalokam, Kottayam, by 5 pm on Tuesday.

The Supreme Head Baselios was enthroned as the eighth Catholicos of the East and the Malankara Church, in November 2010, after the abdication of Baselios Marthoma Didymus I.

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