The Mar Thoma Church

Founded by St. Thomas in AD 52

Apostolic Succession and hierarchy since Koonen Kurisu Satyam

Name of Metropolitan Consecrated as Bishop by whom & when Period
Mar Thoma I By 12 priests in 1653 and by Mar Gregorios of Jerusalem in 1665 1653 – 1670
Mar Thoma II Mar Thoma I & Mar Gregorios, 1669 1670 – 1686
Mar Thoma III Mar Ivanios, 1686 1686 – 1688
Mar Thoma IV Mar Ivanios, 1688 1688 – 1728
Mar Thoma V Mar Thoma IV, 1728 1728 – 1765

Dionysius I
(Mar Thoma VI)

Mar Thoma V, 1760

1765 – 1808

Mar Thoma VII

Mar Dionysius I, 1808

1808 - 1809

Mar Thoma VIII

Mar Thoma VII, 1808

1809 – 1816

Mar Thoma IX

Mar Thoma VIII, 1816

1816 – 1817

Pulikott Mar Dionysius II
(Mar Thoma X)

Mar Philoxenos, Thozhiyur Church, 1816

1816 – 1816

Punnathra Mar Dionysius III  (Mar Thoma XI)

Mar Philoxenos, Thozhiyur Church, 1817

1817 – 1825

Cheppat Mar Dionysius IV (Mar Thoma XII)

Mar Philoxenos, Thozhiyur Church, 1825

1825 – 1852

Mathews Mar Athanasius (Mar Thoma XIII)

Moran Mar Elias Patriarch of Antioch at Mardin,
February 1842

1842 – 1877

Thomas Mar Athanasius
(Mar Thoma XIV)

Mathews Mar Athanasius, June 1868

1877 – 1893

Titus I
(Mar Thomas XV)

Mar Kurilose IV, Thozhiyur Church, 1893

1893 – 1909

Titus II
(Mar Thoma XVI)

Titus I & Geevarghese Mar Kurilose of Thozhiyur Church, 9 December 1898

1909 – 1944

Abraham Mar Thoma
(Mar Thoma XVII)

Titus II, 27 December 1917

1944 – 1947

Juhanon Mar Thoma
(Mar Thoma XVIII)

Titus II & Mar Kurilose of Thozhiyur Church,
30 December 1937

1947 – 1976

Alexander Mar Thoma
(Mar Thoma XIX)

Juhanon Mar Thoma & the Metropolitan of the Thozhiyur Church, 23  May 1953

1976 – 1999

Philipose Mar Chrysostom
(Mar Thoma XX)

Juhanon Mar Thoma & the Metropolitan of the Thozhiyur Church, 23  May 1953

1999 – 2007

Joseph Mar Thoma
(Mar Thoma XXI)

Alexander Mar Thoma in presence of Juhanon Mar Thoma, 8 February 1975

2007 - -
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