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Saint Mar Abimalek Timotheus
Metropolitan of Malabar and All India
Born	28 August 1878 Mar Bisho, Ottoman Empire
Died	30 April 1945 Trichur, Cochin, British Raj
Venerated in	Assyrian Church of the East
Canonized	29 September 2019, Thrissur by Catholicos-Patriarch Gewargis III
Feast	1 May

Mar Abimalek Timotheus (28 August 1878 – 30 April 1945) was an Assyrian priest of the Church of the East who served as Metropolitan of Malabar and All India from 1907 until his death in 1945. Born in the village of Mar Bisho in the Ottoman Empire, he was sent to India by Catholicos-Patriarch Shimun XIX after Shimun received a petition to appoint a bishop from the Chaldean Syrian Church in Trichur (now Thrissur).

The Holy Synod of the Assyrian Church of the East announced that Timotheus would be canonised in May 2018 following the adoption of a new procedure for canonisation, and his sainthood was formally proclaimed by Catholicos-Patriarch Gewargis III on 29 September 2019.

References

1. ^ Assyrian Church of the East (2018). "The Third Holy Synod of the Assyrian Church of the East Convened under His Holiness Mar Gewargis III, Catholicos-Patriarch" (PDF). Retrieved 30 January 2020.
2. Mooken, Aprem (1975). Mar Abimalek Timotheus: A Biography. Trichur: Mar Narsai Press. pp. 6, 13.
3. ^ Coakley, James F. (2018). "Timotheus, Abimalek". Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition. Beth Mardutho. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
4. "Sainthood for Mar Abimalek Timotheus". The Times of India. 28 September 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
5. Assyrian Church of the East (17 November 2019). "Fourth Bi-lateral Dialogue Meeting of the Assyrian Church of the East and the Russian Orthodox Church". Retrieved 30 January 2020.

Further reading

• Mooken, Aprem (1975). Mar Abimalek Timotheus: A Biography. Trichur: Mar Narsai Press.
• Mooken, Aprem (1987). Mar Abdisho Thondanat: A Biography. Trichur: Mar Narsai Press.
• Mooken, Aprem (1977). The Chaldean Syrian Church in India. Trichur: Mar Narsai Press.
• Mooken, Aprem (1983). The Chaldean Syrian Church of the East. Delhi: National Council of Churches in India.
• Mooken, Aprem (2003). The History of the Assyrian Church of the East in the Twentieth Century. Kottayam: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute.

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