Mar Aprem Mooken is the Metropolitan of the Assyrian Church of the East in India.
Aprem Mooken
Aprem Mooken, with his two bishops, Yohannan Yoseph (left) and Awgin Kuriakose (right).
Assyrian Church of the East
The Assyrian Church of the East (ACOE), sometimes called the Church of the East and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East (HACACE), is an Eastern Christian church that follows the traditional Christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East. It belongs to the eastern branch of Syriac Christianity, and employs the Divine Liturgy of Saints Addai and Mari belonging to the East Syriac Rite. Its main liturgical language is Classical Syriac, a dialect of Eastern Aramaic, and the majority of its adherents are ethnic Assyrians.
The Patriarchal see of the Assyrian Church of the East in Ankawa, Iraq
A 6th-century Nestorian church, St. John the Arab, in the Assyrian village of Geramon
Mar Toma church near Urmia, Iran
Mar Elias (Eliya), the Nestorian bishop of the Urmia Plain village of Geogtapa, c. 1831. The image comes from A Residence of Eight Years in Persia Among the Nestorians, with Notes of the Mohammedans by Justin Perkins (Andover, 1843).
