BLESSED ALVAREZ JULIUS (SEPT. 23RD)
Archbishop Alvarez Julius I Edited by Bp. Joseph Boyd ( Ancient Church of the West ) Blessed Alvarez Julius - Metropolitan and Archbishop, Apostolic Prefect of the Independent Catholic Orthodox Church of Ceylon, Goa, and India. He initiated one of the first modern Eastern missions in the world to establish Western Rite Orthodox Churches in the West. Blessed Alvarez Julius was born on the 29th of April, 1836. He went to his eternal reward on the 23rd of September, 1923. Alvares Julius was consecrated to be a Latin Rite Orthodox Bishop on the 28th of July, 1889, by the Orthodox Bishops of Kottayam - Joseph Mar Dionysius, Geevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala, Mar Paulose Ivanios of Kandanadu and Mar Athanasios (Kadavil). He was elevated to Metropolitan Archbishop of Ceylon, Goa and India, excluding Malabar, on the following day. He took the episcopal name of Mar Julius I. Later, the controversial figures of Joseph René Vilatte and Vernon Ulrich Herford were both ord...
