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{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Major Archbishop-[[Catholicos]]
| honorific-prefix = [[His Beatitude]], [[Moran Mor]]
| name = Cyril Baselios Catholicos [[The Bethany Ashram|OIC]]
| native_name =
| native_name_lang = ml
| title = [[Syro-Malankara Catholic Major Archeparchy of Trivandrum|Major Archbishop]]-[[Catholicos]], [[Basileus]], [[Maphrian]]<ref name="DB">{{cite web |url=http://www.bathery.org/about-the-diocese/former-bishops.html |title=His Beatitude Moran Mor Cyril Baselios Catholicos |publisher=Catholic Diocese of Bathery |accessdate=15 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730175536/http://www.bathery.org/about-the-diocese/former-bishops.html |archivedate=30 July 2013 }}</ref><ref name="CH"/>
| image = BaseliFinal.jpg
| caption = His Beatitude Moran Mor Cyril Baselios Catholicos
| church = [[Syro-Malankara Catholic Church]]
| archdiocese = Trivandrum
| see = [[Syro-Malankara Catholic Major Archeparchy of Trivandrum|Trivandrum, India]]
| appointed = 6 November 1995
| predecessor = [[Benedict Mar Gregorios]]
| successor = [[Baselios Cleemis|Moran Mor Baselios Cleemis Catholicos]]
| ordination = 4 October 1960
| ordinated_by =
| consecration = 28 December 1978
| consecrated_by = [[Benedict Mar Gregorios]]
| birth_name = James Malancharuvil
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1935|8|16}}
| birth_place = [[Pandalam]], [[Travancore]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2007|1|18|1935|8|16}}
| death_place = [[Trivandrum]], [[Kerala]]
| previous_post = Metropolitan Bishop of Bathery (1978–1995)
}}
{{Infobox bishop styles
| name = Moran Mor Cyril Baselios
| dipstyle =
*[[Grace (style)|His Grace]]
*[[The Most Reverend]]
| offstyle = [[Grace (style)|Your Grace]]
| relstyle = [[Major Archbishop]]
| See =
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'''Moran Mor Cyril Baselios Catholicos''' or, when referencing his title of [[Major Archbishop]], '''Cyril Baselios Malancharuvil''' [[The Bethany Ashram|OIC]] (born ''James Malancharuvil'', 1935 – 2007) was the first major archbishop of the [[Syro-Malankara Catholic Church]]. He was elevated by [[Pope John Paul II]] in 1995.

== Early life ==
He was born in [[Pandalam]], Kerala on 16 August 1935. His birth name was James Malancharuvil.<ref name="DB">{{cite web |url=http://www.bathery.org/about-the-diocese/former-bishops.html |title=His Beatitude Moran Mor Cyril Baselios Catholicos |publisher=Catholic Diocese of Bathery |accessdate=15 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730175536/http://www.bathery.org/about-the-diocese/former-bishops.html |archivedate=30 July 2013 }}</ref>

In 1951 he entered in the [[Order of the Imitation of Christ]] (O.I.C.) and took the [[religious name]] of Cyril. He studied in Rome and was ordained [[Catholic priest|priest]] on 4 October 1960.

=== Education ===
He received a [[doctorate in canon law]] from the [[Pontifical Gregorian University]] in Rome in 1965, after taking a master's degree in [[psychology]] from [[St. John's University (New York City)|St. John's University]] in New York City. He taught at St. Thomas Apostolic Seminary in [[Kottayam]] and St. Joseph's Pontifical Institute, Mangalapuzha, Aluva.

== Career ==
He was named as Eparch (Bishop) of the suffragan Diocese of [[Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of Bathery|Bathery]] on 28 October 1978, and consecrated on 28 December 1978 by [[Benedict Mar Gregorios]]<ref name="CH">{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bmalcb|Archbishop Cyril Baselios Malancharuvil, O.I.C.|21 January 2015}}</ref> with the name Cyril Mar Baselios.

He was made [[Metropolitan Archbishop]] and head of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church on 6 November 1995. He received the archiepiscopal [[pallium]] from [[Pope John Paul II]] on 9 January 1996 in [[Vatican City]].

=== Major Archbishop ===
The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church raised to the status of a Major Archiepiscopal Church ''sui iuris'' on 10 February 2005 according to the norms of [[CCEO]]. He was the first Syro-Malakara to bear the title of Major Archbishop and his official title according to the West Syriac Tradition was Moran Mor Cyril Baselios Catholicos, which was earlier granted to the Syro-Malabar metropolitanate of Ernakulam–Angamaly and the Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitanate of Kyiv–Halyč and shortly after to the Romanian Catholic Metropolitanate of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia. His motto is 'trust in love'.

He had good ecumenical relations with the [[Indian Orthodox Church]], [[Syriac Orthodox Church]], [[Mar Thoma Church]] and other [[Saint Thomas Christians|St. Thomas churches]].

Moran Mor Cyril Baselios died of a heart attack on 18 January 2007, in Trivandrum.<ref name="CH"/>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*[http://www.catholicate.net Syro-Malankara Catholic Church]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080225023508/http://www.syromalankara.org/ Syro-Malankara Catholic Church – alternative site built by Malankarites]

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[[Category:Pontifical Gregorian University alumni]]
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[[Category:People from Pandalam]]

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