Mar Yohannan | |
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| Bishop of India | |
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| Church | Church of the East in India |
| Diocese | India |
| Installed | c. 1490 |
| Term ended | c. 1503 |
| Predecessor | Yahballaha II of India |
| Successor | Mar Yacob (1503–c. 1550) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | Shemon IV |
Mar Yohannan, also known (prior to episcopal consecration) as a monk Yoseph of Awgin, was Bishop of India (c. 1490–1503), a metropolitan province of the Church of the East. In 1490, envoys of Saint Thomas Christians from the Malabar Coast in India traveled to Mesopotamia and arrived in Gazarta, bringing appeals to the hierarchy of the Church of the East, and asking for new bishops. Patriarch Shemon IV responded positively to their request and arranged the selection of two monks from the Awgin Monastery, both of them called Yoseph, appointing them as bishops, under new names: Mar Yohannan and Mar Thoma, and dispatching them to India. Mar Yohannan stayed in India, while Mar Thomas returned to Mesopotamia. In 1503, three new bishops were sent to India, by new Patriarch Eliya V: Mar Yahballaha, Mar Dinkha and Mar Yaqob. Upon arrival, they met with Mar Yohannan. Activities of Mar Yohannan and other bishops reaffirmed traditional ties between Christians of India and the Church of the East. By that time, local Christians of the Malabar Coast were also facing some additional challenges, caused by the establishment of Portuguese presence in India.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
- ^ Mingana 1926, p. 468-470.
- ^ Brown 1956, p. 16-18.
- ^ Mundadan 1967, p. 56-58.
- ^ Wilmshurst 2000, p. 20, 347, 398.
- ^ Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 106-111.
- ^ Neill 2004, p. 193-195.