Joseph Sulaqa

Mar Joseph Sulaqa (Syriac: ܝܘܣܦ ܣܘܠܩܐ), also known as Yousep d'Bēth Bello (Syriac: ܝܘܣܦ ܪܒܝܬ ܒܠܘ, lit. 'Joseph of the house of Bello'), was one of the last East Syriac bishops to Malabar. He was shortly followed by Mar Abraham; both reached in Malabar after the arrival of the Portuguese. Patriarch Abdisho IV Maron (1555–1570), the successor of Shimun VIII Yohannan Sulaqa, sent the brother of Shimun VIII, Mar Joseph, to Malabar as a Chaldaean bishop; although consecrated in 1555 or 1556, Mar Joseph could not reach India before the end of 1556, nor Malabar before 1558, when the Portuguese were finally alerted by the presence of Mar Abraham and allowed Mar Joseph, accompanied by another Chaldaean bishop, Mar Eliah, to occupy his see, before the Inquisition also sent him to Lisbon in 1562.