Geevarghese Ivanios

Venerable Ivanios Geevarghese Panikkervettil OIC
First Metropolitan Archbishop of Trivandrum, Founder and First head of the Syro Malankara Catholic Church.
Church	Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
See	Syro-Malankara Catholic Major Archeparchy of Trivandrum
Installed	11 June 1932
Term ended	15 July 1953
Predecessor	None (seat created)
Successor	Aboun Mor Benedict Gregorios Thangalathil OIC
Orders
Ordination	15 September 1908 by Vattasseril Dionysius
Consecration	1 May 1925 by Baselios Geevarghese I
Personal details
Born	P. T Geevarghese (1882-09-21)21 September 1882 Mavelikkara, Kerala
Died	15 July 1953(1953-07-15) (aged 70) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Buried	Saint Mary's Malankara Syrian Catholic Cathedral Church, Pattom, Trivandrum
Nationality	India
Previous post(s)	Metropolitan Archbishop of Bethany Ashram of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church

Aboun Mor Ivanios "P. T." Geevarghese Panikkervettil, OIC (born 21 September 1882 as Panikkervettil Thomas Panicker Geevarghese - died 15 July 1953) was the first metropolitan archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church and Major Archdiocese of Trivandrum.^[1] He was the founder of Bethany Ashram for monks in Order of Imitation Christ (OIC) and Bethany Madam order of nuns. He was the first M.A. degree holder in the Kerala or Malankara Church. He also served as the principal of the Kottayam M.D Seminary High School and as a professor at Serampore College. He is a candidate for sainthood in the Catholic Church, having been declared a Servant of God by Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottungal in 2007 and Venerable by Pope Francis in 2024.