Catholicos-Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East from 1968 to 1969
His Holiness Mar
Thoma II Darmo
Catholicos Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East
His Holiness Mar Thoma II Darmo
Church
Ancient Church of the East ܥܕܬܐ ܥܬܝܩܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ
See
Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed
11 October 1968[1]
Term ended
7 September 1969
Successor
Mar Addai II
Orders
Ordination
11 October 1968 at St. Zaia Cathedral (Baghdad, Iraq)
Rank
Catholicos-Patriarch
Personal details
Born
Mansour Darmo
21 September 1904
Iyel, Ottoman Empire
Died
September 7, 1969(1969-09-07) (aged 64) Baghdad, Iraq
Denomination
Ancient Church of the East
Parents
Elishai Darmo (father) and Shirine Darmo (mother)
Occupation
Clergy
Previous post(s)
Metropolitan of India (June 1952 – October 1968)
Thoma Darmo (b. 21 September 1904 in Iyel, Ottoman Empire – d. in Baghdad, Iraq on 7 September 1969) was the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East, from 1968 to 1969. Prior to that, he served as Metropolitan of India, from 1952 to 1964, within the Church of the East.[2][3]
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ThomaDarmo (b. 21 September 1904 in Iyel, Ottoman Empire – d. in Baghdad, Iraq on 7 September 1969) was the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Ancient Church...
1968 at Mar Zaia Cathedral in Baghdad, Iraq. Following the death of Mar ThomaDarmo, he was elected as Catholicos-Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the...
Synod of Diamper in 1599. In June 1952, Patriarch Shimun XXI appointed ThomaDarmo as new Metropolitan of India, based at Trichur. During his tenure, several...
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13 June 1965. He was consecrated Bishop on 21 September 1968, by Mar ThomaDarmo, Catholicos Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East, taking the name...
to another schism. In 1968, traditionalists within the church elected ThomaDarmo as a rival patriarch to Shimun XXI Eshai, forming the independent Ancient...
Sergius of Samarkand Shimun VIII Yohannan Sulaqa Shimun XXI Eshai Mar ThomaDarmo Mar Dinkha IV Salmawaih ibn Bunan John bar Penkaye Bosworth, C.E. (2000)...
of the East titles Vacant Title last held by Abdisho Thondanatta Metropolitan of Malabar and All India 1907–1945 Vacant Title next held by ThomaDarmo...
as a deacon at a young age in 1956. Not long after the arrival of Mar ThomaDarmo to Baghdad, Iraq in September 1968, Toma was elevated to the rank of...
Church under Mar Shimun. The then suspended metropolitan of India Mar ThomaDarmo was invited to Baghdad in 1968 by Col. Yosip Khoshaba. Together they...
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