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17th century Saint Thomas Christian bishop
His Grace
Mar Thoma I
Malankara Metropolitan
Malankara Church
Diocese
Malankara Syrian Church
Installed
22 May 1653[1]
Term ended
1670
Predecessor
Giwargis of the Cross
Successor
Mar Thoma II
Orders
Ordination
1637
Consecration
regularized in 1665[1]
Personal details
Born
Palamattom Thoma
Kadamattom
Died
25 April 1670 Angamaly
Buried
St. Mary's Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, Angamaly[2]
Parambil Thoma
Archdeacon of All India of the Archdiocese of Cranganore
Appointed
by Stephen Britto[3]
Predecessor
Arkadeacon Givargis of the Cross
Successor
Thoma II
Mar Thoma I, also known as Valiya Mar Thoma (Mar Thoma the Great) and Arkkadiyakkon Thoma (Archdeacon Thomas) in Malayalam and Thomas de Campo in Portuguese [3] was the first native-born, popularly-selected Metropolitan bishop of the 17th-century Malankara Church. He was the last Archdeacon of the undivided St. Thomas Christians of Malankara (Maliyankara).
After the death of Archdeacon George of the Cross on 25 July 1640, Parambil Thoma Kathanar was elected and enthroned as new Archdeacon, when he was less than 30 years old. He led the Church to the Coonan Cross Oath on 3 January 1653 and to the subsequent schism in Nasrani Church. After the Oath, he was elected as a Bishop by the Malankara (Yogam) Association and consecrated as a Bishop at St. Mary's Church Alangad, by laying hands of 12 priests on 22 May 1653.[citation needed] However, some factions of the community, including two Southist churches of Kaduthuruthy and Udayamperoor refused to recognise him as Bishop[citation needed].
The archdeacon began to exercise powers of episcopal order, though he openly tried to regularize his episcopal consecration as a Bishop with the Church of Antioch. His episcopal consecration as a Bishop was regularized in the year 1665 by Mar Gregorios Abdal Jaleel the Patriarchal delegate of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.[1] (The exact date and place of this event is unknown). Palliveettil Mar Chandy, Kadavil Chandy Kathanar, Vengoor Geevargese Kathanar and Anjilimoottil Ittithomman Kathanar were the advisors of the bishop Mar Thoma.[4]
^ abcJoseph, Thomas (2011). "Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church". In Sebastian P. Brock; Aaron M. Butts; George A. Kiraz; Lucas Van Rompay (eds.). Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
^"Morth Mariam Church, Ankamaly". Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
^ abThekedath, Joseph (1972). The troubled days of Francis Garcia S. J. Archbishop of Cranganore (1641-1659). p. 7, 21. ISBN 9788876521584.
^Brown, Leslie W. (1956). The Indian Christians of St Thomas: An Account of the Ancient Syrian Church of Malabar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 103.
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