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
In a letter to kingJohn III of Portugal dated 26 January 1549 Francis Xavier describe Yaqob Abuna as a virtuous and saintly man
Tarisāppaḷḷi or Kollam Tarisāppaḷḷi was a Persian–Syrian Christian church in Kollam on the Malabar Coast, southern India. Local tradition holds that this ancient church was among the Seven Churches fo
A Dutch (Nieuhof) depiction of the port of Kollam in 1682, with the Tarisappalli Church (4) also visible.
Mar Sapor (or Sabor) and his colleague Mar Proth, the Persian Syrian bishops, are believed to have arrived in Kerala in the early 9th century (modern depiction).
The East Syriac metropolitan provinces, dioceses, and other centers on the maritime routes in the Indian Ocean