KOCHI: The Syro-Malabar church in Ernakulam archdiocese sees massive replacement acts. In Ernakulam st mary's basilica cathedral, the administrator father Antony Puthuveli was transferred but the vicarage Antony Narikulam was retained. Father Antony was transferred to Moozhikulam Forane as a vicarage. The rebel factions in the archdiocese expressed their disappointment over the move. Out of 350 priests in the diocese, 79 were transferred.

With troubles brewing inside the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese, the Almaya group beseeched the administrator Andrews Thazhath to annul the replacement acts done in favor of the rebel factions in the diocese. The meeting concluded that the move is setting up a bad precedent for the devotees. They presaged that the replacing of priests will surely make the devotes split into factions and go against one another.