in this age of ‘conflicts and chaos.’ He also said that India was a fast-growing economy and added that Ethiopians and Indians had many similarities. The Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan Baselios Marthoma Didymus I presided over the meeting. The Catholicos also conferred the Order of St. Thomas, the supreme award of the Malankara Orthodox Church, on the Ethiopian Patriarch on the occasion. Gerima W. Kirkos, Abba Timotheos Tesfa and Abba Dioscoros, Archbishops from Ethiopia, accompanied the Patriarch. Mr. Oommen Chandy, Metropolitans Geevarghese Mar Osthathios, Geevarghese Mar Coorilos, Mathews Mar Severios, Gabriel Mar Gregorios, Paulose Mar Pachomios, Youhanon Mar Chrysostomos, Thomas Mar Athanasius, Kuriakos Mar Cleemis, Zacharias Mar Theophilus, Zacharias Mar Anthonios, and other dignitaries including Jiji Thomson IAS, Malankara Association secretary George Joseph, MGOCSM vice-president Anju Paulose, general secretary Fr V.M. Abraham (later Abraham Mar Seraphim), Parumala seminary manager Fr M. D. John, priest trustee Fr Johns Abraham Konattu; and lay trustee M. George Muthoottu also addressed the meet. See Also Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad References External links MGOCSM of India MGOCSM Bombay MGOCSM of North America MGOCSM of Southwest America MGOCSM Bhilai, India St. Thomas Orthodox Cathedral, Houston, TX - MGOCSM MGOCSM Chennai St. Thomas Orthodox Church, Oklahoma City, OK - MGOCSM MGOCSM Ambernath, Thane, Maharashtra Christian organisations based in India Student organisations in India Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church