Geevarghese Mar Ivanios was a prominent Catholic archbishop born in 1882 in Mavelikkara. After being ordained as a deacon in 1900 and a priest in 1908, he became a central figure in the Malankara Reunion Movement. This movement aimed to bring the Malankara Church into communion with the Catholic Church. In 1930, he completed this transition, subsequently becoming the first Syro-Malankara Catholic metropolitan archbishop and the first bishop of Trivandrum in 1932.