Mar Yaqob | |
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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 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 from the Monastery of Saint Eugene: Rabban David as Mar Yaballaha, Rabban George as Mar Denha, Rabban Masud as Mar Yaqob. The Patriarch sent these three new Bishops together with Mar Thomas to the lands of the Indians, and to the islands of the seas, which are within Dabag, and to Sin and Masin- Java, China and Maha china- Great China.[1][2][3]