Sthathicon

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Kadavil Paulose Mar Athanasius
, 1877

A sthathicon (also transliterated sthathikon) or susthathikon is an ecclesial document of official authorization and agreement, typically certifying the consecration of bishops in Syriac Christianity.[1]: 100, 180 [2]

Description

A sthathicon serves as an official document in some

Holy Orders invalid.[1]
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The sthathicon features in West Syriac ordination ritual. Following the Omologio, a proclamation of faith, an episcopal candidate is to read aloud a sthathicon. This sthathicon can be written by his own hand professing the true faith, promising to abide by the apostolic constitutions, obedience and allegiance to the Patriarchal Throne." After reading it, the candidate signs it and hands it to the catholicos.[3]

The

High Court of Kerala, the MOSC has argued that those without a sthathicon could not claim to be members of their clergy.[7]

After clergy of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, a part of the Syriac Orthodox Church, are consecrated by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch as metropolitans, they receive a sthathikon from the patriarch as the order to assume their new offices.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Knight, Sarah (2019). Narratives of religious identity: the self-perception of the Jacobite Syrian Christians of Kerala (PDF) (PhD). Vol. 2. University of London. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas-I". Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church Ireland. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  3. ^ Kolliyelil, Thomas Prasobh. "Episcopate: Martyrdom for the Unity of the Sheep: Liturgical Ecclesiology of communion in the Episcopal Consecration in the West Syrian Tradition". Retrieved 12 October 2022 – via Academia.edu.
  4. ^ The Constitution of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (PDF) (2006 ed.). Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. 1934. Retrieved 12 October 2022 – via MalankaraWorld.com.
  5. ^ Jerusalem Division Class X (English): Part II (PDF). Orthodox Syrian Sunday School Association of the East. November 2015. p. 80-81. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  6. ISBN 9781387803163 – via Google Books
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  7. High Court of Kerala
    . 2 December 2002. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  8. ^ "New Jacobite Metropolitans given warm reception". The New Indian Express. 18 January 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2022.

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