laying hands means christ healing the sick in the bible.
laying hands means christ healing the sick in the bible.
what does laying hands mean in the bible?
christ healing the sick
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then, according to the second letter of mar ahatallah fabricated by ittithomman anjilimoottil kathanar on 22 may 1653, at st mary's church alangad, during the solemn celebration of the feast of the ascension, the people and priests assembled there elected archdeacon thomas, as their bishop and gave him the title mar thoma i. he was consecrated using an oriental consecration rite, but by the laying hands on him by 12 priests, instead of any bishops doing it, which was mandatory according to the canon laws of all the churches all over the world. until then there was no such a tradition of consecration by priests instead of bishops in malankara. hence the malankara syrian church adopted quite a new way of ordaining a bishop by laying hands of 12 priests (kaiveppu) as there was no bishop in india at that time who would do it for him. all the bishops who were in india at that time were of the latin catholic church and they would not do the consecration of him as it was against their bishop the said oath was made. there were no oriental or eastern church bishops in india at that time, because the portuguese had imposed a sort of embargo on the malankara syrian church, so that no such bishops would reach india. the pope's apostolic commissary and carmelite fr friar joseph of st mary sebastiani arrived in malankara in 1657 and started challenging the legitimacy of the ordination of mar thoma i. this led to the split of malankara syrian church in two factions, one supporting mar thoma i and the other supporting friar sebastiani. this led the mar thoma i faction of the malankara syrian church to ask for a metropolitan bishop from the church of antioch to regularize the validity of the consecration of mar thoma i.
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