Yaqob Abuna
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Mar Yaqob Abuna was one of the metropolitans of the Church of Malabar of the Saint Thomas Christians. In 1503, Mar Eliya V, the Catholicos Patriarch of the Church of the East consecrated three bishops
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In a letter to kingJohn III of Portugal dated 26 January 1549 Francis Xavier describe Yaqob Abuna as a virtuous and saintly man
Yohannan (Yoseph of Awgin)
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Mar Yohannan, also known as a monk Yoseph of Awgin, was Bishop of India, a metropolitan province of the Church of the East. In 1490, envoys of Saint Thomas Christians from the Malabar Coast in India t
Yaqob Abuna
…Mar Yaqob Saint Thomas Christians Diocese India Installed 1503 Term ended 1553 Predecessor Mar Yohannan (1490-1503) Successor Mar Joseph Sulaqa (1555-1567) Orders Ordination 1503 by Mar Elias V Personal details Died c. 1553 Cranganore (?) Mar Yaqob Abuna…
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