Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 580 · Decided 3 July 2017
K. S. Varghese & ORS. v. ST. Peters & Pauls Syrian ORTH. & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 580 · [2017] 9 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3674/2015
- Decided
- 3 July 2017
- Bench
- ARUN MISHRA, AMITAVA ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Constitution Article 25, 26, 1934, 40
Headnote
Constitution of India: Arts.25 and 26 - Malankara church - Management of affairs of Malankara church - Perpetual fight between Patriarch faction and Catho/icos faction - Historical background discussed in *Most Rev. P.M.A. Metropolitan case popularly known as *1995 judgment A B c - Whether the oil the appellants - Jn the 1995 judgment, the Supreme Court referring to the Year 1654 events, observed that the authority of the Patriarch extended only to spiritual D affairs but not to the temporal affairs of the Malankara Church - The Court also observed that the Patriarch in the year 1972
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