Gregorios Abdal Jaleel

Gregorios Abdul Jaleel

Saint
Metropolitan of Jerusalem
BornMosul, Iraq
Died27 April 1681
North Paravur ,India
Venerated inSyriac Orthodox Church
Oriental Orthodox Christianity
Major shrineSt. Thomas Jacobite Syrian Church, North Paravur
Feast27 April

Mor Gregorios Abdal Jaleel Bawa (died 27 April 1681) was the Syriac Orthodox Bishop of Jerusalem from 1664 until his death in 1681. He is chiefly remembered for his 1665 mission to India, by which he established ties between the Malankara Church and the Syriac Orthodox church of Antioch.[1] He is venerated as a saint by his church.[2][3]

Abdal Jaleel was born in Mosul, Iraq. In 1653 he was ordained metropolitan bishop for the Ameed (Diyarbakir) diocese in Turkey by the Patriarch Ignatius She'mun. In 1664, he was elevated as the Metropolitan of Jerusalem with the title Gregorios. He traveled to India in 1665 to the ordination of Thoma I, archdeacon of the Malankara Nasrani community. He was the delegate of the Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church to Kerala Syrian Christians.[1] He died in India in 1681, and his remains are interred in the St. Thomas Church at North Paravur. On April 4, 2000, Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I declared Mar Gregorios Abdal Jaleel a saint.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b Brock, Sebastian P. (2011a). "Thomas Christians". 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.
  2. ^ Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients : Gesamtregister für die Bände 1(1901) bis 70(1986) (in German). O. Harrassowitz. 2005. ISBN 9783447029643.
  3. ^ Eastern Churches Journal. Society of Saint John Chrysostom. 2005.
  4. ^ Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients : Gesamtregister für die Bände 1(1901) bis 70(1986) (in German). O. Harrassowitz. 2005. ISBN 9783447029643.
  5. ^ Eastern Churches Journal. Society of Saint John Chrysostom. 2005.