Flashcards: Syriac Orthodox Church bishops

Saint Geevargese Mar Gregorios aka Parumala Thirumeni (15 June 1848 – 2 November 1902) was a bishop of the Malankara Syrian Church.

Dr.Geevarghese Mor Gregorios (Perumpally Thirumeni) (October 10, 1933 – February 22, 1999) was a bishop of the Syrian Orthodox Church, President of the Episcopal Synod of the Church in India, President of the Synod of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church and the Metropolitan of Cochin, Kottayam, Kollam, Niranam and Thumpamon Dioceses.

Ahudemmeh was the Metropolitan of the East of the Syriac Orthodox Church, from 559 until his execution in 575.

In 1947, while Metropolitan of Jerusalem of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (also known as the Syrian Orthodox Church), Mar Samuel received news that some ancient texts had been discovered.

Mor Polycarpus Augin Aydın (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܦܘܠܝܩܪܦܘܣ ܐܘܓܝܢ ܐܝܕܝܢ‎; born Edip Aydın (Syriac: ܐܕܝܒ ܐܝܕܝܢ‎); on June 10, 1971 near Nusaybin (Nisibis), Turkey), is the Metropolitan and Patriarchal Vicar for the Archdiocese of the Netherlands of the Syriac Orthodox Church.

Mor Dodo was the Syriac Orthodox Bishop of Tagrit from 589 until his death in 609.

Sir Dr. Mor Athanasious Eliyas ( born Eliyas on 13 April 1964) is a Syriac Orthodox bishop.

Metropolitan Geevarghese Mor Coorilos, formerly George Mathew Nalunnakkal, is a bishop of the Syrian Orthodox Church and as of 2014 the Metropolitan of Niranam.

Theophilos Kuriakose is a Syriac Orthodox bishop of the Jacobite Syrian Church.

Yaqub Mor Anthonios (born 12 July 1952) is a Syriac Orthodox bishop and Metropolitan of the Manglore Diocese.

Mor Philexinos Yuhanon Dolabani (Syriac: ܦܝܠܘܟܣܝܢܘܣ ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܘܠܒܐܢܝ‎); (1885–1969) was the Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan of Mardin, Turkey and its Environs.

Ignatius Saba of Salah was the Patriarch of Tur Abdin from 1364 until his death in 1389.

Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek (born Julius Yeshu Çiçek; January 1, 1942 in Kafro `Elayto, Tur Abdin, Turkey – died October 29, 2005 in Düsseldorf, Germany) was the first Syriac Orthodox Church archbishop from Central Europe.

Moses of Mardin (Latin: Moses Mardenus) was a Syriac Orthodox priest and bishop who played a significant role in printing the first Syriac bible and served as perhaps the first Syriac teacher/scholar in Europe.

Pulikkottil Joseph Mar Dionysious II (Mar Dionysious V) (12 November, 1833 – 11 July, 1909) the Malankara Metropolitan, was born into the family of Pulikkottil (Kunnamkulam), a famous and important family in the annals of the history of Malankara Syrian Church.

Mar Thoma VIII was the Metropolitan of the Malankara church in Kerala, India from 1809 to 1816.

Moses Bar-Kepha (born in Balad in Nineveh, now in Iraq, about the year 813; died at the age of ninety, in 903) was a writer and one of the most celebrated bishops of the Syriac Orthodox Church of the ninth century.

Mor Gabriel (Aramaic: ܡܪܝ ܓܒܪܐܝܠ‎‎: Saint Gabriel) was the 7th bishop of Tur Abdin in Southeastern Turkey.

Yuhanon Mor Philoxenos (born John Jacob Elappanal; 5 December 1941 – 30 December 2015) was a Syriac Orthodox bishop.

Metropolitan Zacharias Mor Philoxinos, (Malayalam: അഭിവന്ദ്യ മോര്‍ പീലക്സീനോസ് സക്കറിയാസ് മെത്രാപ്പോലീത്ത) formerly Therambil Achan, is a Syriac Orthodox bishop of the Syrian Orthodox Church and, as of 2014, the Jacobite bishop of Idukki.

Catholicos Baselios Paulose II (born as Puthusseril Joseph Paulose in Kandanad, India 12 June 1914 – died 1 September 1996) was the second Catholicos/Maphrian of the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church (Syriac Orthodox Church of India).

Jacob of Edessa (or James of Edessa) (Syriac: ܝܥܩܘܒ ܐܘܪܗܝܐ‎, translit. Ya'qub Urhoy) (c. 640 – 5 June 708) was one of the most distinguished of Syriac writers.

Severus Sebokht (Syriac: ܣܘܪܘܣ ܣܝܒܘܟܬ‎), also Seboukt of Nisibis.

Mar Thoma I, also known as "Valiya Mar Thoma" (Mar Thoma the Great), is the first native democratically elected/selected Metropolitan bishop of the Malankara Church.

Mar Thoma III was the third metropolitan bishop who was the Malankara Metropolitan of Syriac Orthodox Church in India from 1686 to 1688.

Mar Thoma IV was the fourth bishop who was the Malankara Metropolitan of Syriac Orthodox Church in India in 1688–1728.

Mar Thoma IX was the ninth Metropolitan of the Malankara Church in Kerala, India.

Mar Thoma V was born in Pakalomattom family, one of the oldest families in Kerala and he was known as Ousep (Yossef in Hebrew, Ousep-Malayalam ,Joseph in English).

Mar Thoma VII was a bishop of the Malankara church from 1796 and Malankara Metropolitan from April 1808 to July 1809.

Mar Dionysius I, also known as Mar Thoma VI (died 8 April 1808), was the Metropolitan of the Malankara Church from 1765 until his death.

Mar Dionysius II, born Pulikkottil Joseph Ittoop (15 January 1742 – 24 November 1816) was Malankara Metropolitan from 22 March 1815 until his demise.

Mar Dionysius IV born Cheppad Peelipose (Aramaic and Malayalam: Piyliypaos, in English Philip) (1781 – 9 October 1855), was Malankara Metropolitan from 27 August 1825, until he abdicated in 1852.

Joseph René Vilatte (January 24, 1854 – July 8, 1929), also known by the religious name Mar Timotheus I, was a French naturalized American Christian leader active in France and the United States.

Catholicos Baselios Thomas I (Mal: ആബൂന് മോര് ബസേലിയോസ് തോമസ്‌ പ്രഥമന് കാതോലിക്ക ബാവ, b: July 22, 1929) is the third Maphrian i.

Jacob Bar-Salibi also known as Dionysius Bar-Salibi was the best-known and most prolific writer in the Syriac Orthodox Church of the twelfth century.

Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares (Alvares Mar Julius, Julius Mar Alvarez) (29 April 1836 – 23 September 1923) was initially a priest in the Roman Catholic Church in Goa.

1930 May 4: (Malayalam Era 1105 Medom 21) CG Samuel, who was to become Samuel Mar Philexinose, was born as the eldest son of Late Kodathu Charuvilayil Ghevarghese and Annammah, of Konni, who were members of the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, Konni-Vakayar (Thumpamon Diocese).