Titus II Mar Thoma XVI Mar Thoma Metropolitan | |
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| of the Apostolic Throne of St Thomas | |
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| Installed | 5 November 1909 |
| Term ended | 6 July 1944 |
| Predecessor | Titus I Mar Thoma |
| Successor | Abraham Mar Thoma |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1889 |
| Consecration | 9 December 1894 |
| Rank | Mar Thoma Metropolitan (Ecclesiastical Title of the Head of the Ancient Indian Church) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Joseph Titus Palakunnathu 6 May 1866 |
| Died | 6 July 1944 (aged 78) Tiruvalla |
| Buried | Tiruvalla |
Titus II Mar Thoma XVI (6 May 1866 – 6 July 1944) was the Metropolitan of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church with its center in Kerala state in south-western India. He was known as Thithoos Dwitheeyan Mar Thoma Metropolitan among his people. (Thithoos is Aramaic and Malayalam)
It was in the Malabar Coast in the 1st century CE, Thomas the Apostle arrived to preach the gospel to the Jews and non-Jewish locals, from whom emerged the Nasrani people and their Malankara Church. They followed a unique Hebrew-Syriac Christian tradition which included several Jewish elements and Indian customs. The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church is still a part of this Malankara Church community.