Supreme Court of India
Most Rev. P.M.A. Metropolitan and Ors. v. Moran Mar Marthoma and Anr.
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above findings, it is unnecessary to go into the other questions urged before us, viz., maintainability of the suit (in view of Section 9 of the Civil Procedure Code), effect of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, non- joinder of parties and so on.
Judgment, page 145
From the headnote
Ecclesiastical and Canonical Law-Dispute between the Catholicos group and the Patriarch group in the Malankara Sy1ian Christian com munity-Constitution recognising spiritual but not temporal supremacy of the Patriarch of Antioch over the Ma/ankara Church-Excommunication of Catholicos of the East by the Pabiarch-Wliether valid-Held, per curiam, the excon1munication was invalid. Ecclesiastical and Canonica/ Law-Dispute between the Catho/icos group and the Pafliarch group in the Ma/ankara Sy1ian Christian com- munity-Revival of Catho/icate of the East in 1912 with temporal powers over Malankara
Authorities it was built on
- 1954 Moran Mar Basselios Catholicos and Another v. Most Rev. Mar Poulose Athanasius and Others
- 1960 Satyadhyan Ghosal and Others v. Sm. Deorajin Debi and Another.
- 1977 Rev. Stainislaus v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors.
- 1965 Commissioner of Income-tax, Bombay & Another v. Ishwarlal Bhagwandas and Others
- 1981 Idandas v. Anant Ramchandra Phadke Dead by L. Rs.
- 1970 Ugamsingh & Mishrimal v. Kesrimal & Ors
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Odisha State Financial Corporation v. Vigyan Chemical Industries and Others
- 2021 Shri Saurav Jain & Anr. v. M/s A. B. P. Design & Anr.
- 2018 Mar Koorilos (dead) and Anr. Etc. v. M. Pappy (dead) and Another Etc.
Of those, 3 relied on
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