Oxford Graduate, Jacobite Priest

Received in India
MANY prelates and other members of the clergy attended the admittance into the Church recently at Muvatupuzba, India, of Fr. C. A. Abraham, a member of the clergy of the schismatic Jacobite Church.
Fr. Abraham was received by Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios, 0.1.C., of Trivandrum, who himself became a convert in 1933 from the same Church.
A graduate of Oxford University. Fr. Abraham relinquished a teaching position at the Jacobiteoperated Union Christian College at Alwaye. He will take a teaching post at the Catholic Nirmala College there.
The Jacobite Church came into being in 1653, following a split in the Syro-Malabarese Rite. A major step in the reunion of the Jacobites with Rome occurred in 1930 with the conversion to the Church of Mar lvanios and Mar Theophilus, both members of the Jacobite Hierarchy. Both these prelates, who have since died, became members of the Catholic Hierarchy.
The Jacobites, who have been united with Rome, form the SyroMalankarese Rite, which uses Malayalam, the vernacular, in much of its Liturgy.