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Mar
Yohannan Yoseph was born in Trichur near
East fort in 1966 November 14.
He is the seventh one of the nine
children of Therattil Chirakkekaran Antony
and his wife Annah (Cicily teacher).
He had completed his preliminary
school studies from
Chaldean
Syrian
School
,
Model
High School
for Boys and secured bachelors Degree in
Commerce (B.Com) from
Calicut
University
in 1989.
He studied at Mar Thoma Theological
Seminary Kottayam (1990 - 1994) and earned
Bachelor of Divinity
(B.D.) Degree from
Serampur
University
,
Kolkatha
,
India
. In 1998 joined in St. Ephrem Ecumenical
Research Institute Kottayam and secured a
Masters degree (M.A.) in Syriac Language and
Literature in 2000 from
Mahatma
Gandhi
University
,
Kottayam
,
India
. End
of the same year went to
Iraq
and continued the Syriac studies till 2003
march. From
2004 onwards he is a research student of
Mahatma
Gandhi
University
at Kottayam in Syriac Language and
Literature.
In 1989 April 16 Late Dr. Poulose Mar
Poulose Episcopa ordained him as a Deacon at
Mar
Adhai
Sleeha
Church
, Paravattani.
In 1999 April 11 His
Grace Dr.
Mar Aprem Metropolitan ordained him as a
priest at
Mar
Yohannan
Mamdhana
Church
, East Fort, Thrissur.
During the period 1996 - 1998
worked as a Secretary to Dr. Mar Aprem
Metropolitan and Bishop Poulose Mar Poulose
Episcopa.
He was assistant vicar of
Mar
Narsai
Church
Kachery, St. Thomas Church Ernakulam, Mar
Qardhakh Sahdha Church Chennai,
Mar Sleeva Church
Cochin
, Mart Mariyam Church Koratty, Mar Timotheus
Church Calicut, Mar Beesho Church Puthoor at
his Deaconship.
Served as Assistant Vicar at
Mar
Adhai
Sleeha
Church
, Paravattani and
Mar
Oudisho
Church
at Baghdhad. He formed a Parish at Kottayam
and established a church there in the name
of Mar Abdisho.
Now he is the Vicar General of the
Chaldean
Syrian
Church
in
India
and also serving as a vicar at Mar Joseph
Church Kunnamkulam.
He is also the president of Mar Thoma
Ashram (Orphanage for Boys) at Mulayam,
Executive Member of Kerala Council of
Churches and the executive member of
National Council of Churches in
India
.
In 2010 January 17th
he received the
Episcopal Consecration as the Bishop
of the Holy Catholic Assyrian Church of the
East in Inadia
by H.H Maran Mar Dinkha IV.
e-mail : maryohannan@gmail.com
maryohannan@churchoftheeastindia.org
Phone
: +91 9446995867
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