PD Dr Joseph Mar Ivanios is Professor in Church History at ‘Federated Faculty for Research in Religion and Culture’ (FFRRC), Kottayam, India and Bishop of the dioceses of Mumbai, Europe and Africa of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church. He took his MA in History at the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India before going on to Theological training at the Mar Thoma Theological Seminary, Kottayam. He took his BD at Mar Thoma Theological Seminary; M.Th at FFRRC (Both are affiliated to the Serampore University) and then his D.Theol. and Habilitation at Departement fur Christkatholische, Department of Theology, University of Bern, Switzerland.
Dr. Mar Ivanios was appointed to a Lectureship at the Trinity College,(Private College) Pathanamthitta in 1993-94, made Lecturer at Episcopal Jubilee Institute in 1998-2000 and visiting faculty at Mar Thoma Theological Seminary, Kottayam in 2015 and full professor there in 2018. From 2000 until 2017, he held posts in the Church as Vicar/Priest at the Mar Thoma Church parishes and institutions in Singapore, Germany, Switzerland and India. He served as Professor and Academic Dean at the Federated Faculty of Research in Religion and Culture (2015-2023). He served as the Chaplain to the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church Metropolitan, Alexander Mar Thoma (1998-2000).
He taught in the Faculty of History of Christianity in the Episcopal Jubilee Institute, affiliated to the University of Serampore, India (2015 -2018)
Dr. Mar Ivanios is co-editor with Professor Prakash K George and Professor V S Varughese (Mar Thoma Theological Seminary ) (2015-2020) and Editor of Mar Thoma Journal of Theology, the quarterly publication of the Mar Thoma Theological Seminary, Kottayam, India. (2020 -2023). He is co-editor for the Mar Thoma Church publications on Ecumenical Relations.
Dr Mar Ivanios served as Policy Reference Committee Member of the WCC General Assembly Karlsruhe, General Committee member of the National Council of Churches in Singapore(NCCS) (2006-2009), Executive Committee member of the Fellowship of Indian Denominational Churches in Singapore and Malaysia(FIDC) (2006-2009), and a Member of the Inter Religious Confidence Circle,(IRCC) Singapore.(2006-2009)
Dr. Mar Ivanios is a Senate member of the Serampore (College) University, Kolkotta, India. He is Executive committee member and Council Member of the United Theological College, Bangalore. He is Executive Committee member of the Theological Literature society (TLC), India.
Dr Mar Ivanios serves on the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church’s President of Department for Sacred Music and Communications (DSMC); President of the Mar Thoma Vision, online channel of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church; Standing Committee member of the Old Catholic and Mar Thoma Church Communion.
