The Malankara Metropolitan is the custodian of the Old Seminary, Kottayam and the Trustee for the Vattipanam (Trust Fund).[citation needed] After 1877, every denomination in Malankara started claiming their prelate as Malankara Metropolitan. Among them the head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, was affirmed by the Supreme court of India as the rightful Malankara Metropolitan in the verdict pertaining to the asset dispute with the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church.[1] Present Malankara Metropolitan is His Holiness Baselios Marthoma Mathews III.