Mar Thoma Darmo, a native of
Mesopotamia, was Metropolitan of
the Assyrian Church of the
East from 1952 to 1968, based at Trichur, Kerala
, India
.In
schism against the Catholicos Patriarch
Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII because of
reform issues introduced by the
Assyrian Church of the East, he
voiced his opposition and as a result the rival
Ancient Church of the East was
established in 1964.
Subsequently Mar Thoma Darmo was elected as head of the new church
as its first Catholicos-Patriarch in October 1968.
He also
relocated the Ancient Church of the East to Baghdad
. He
died the following year in 1969. He was succeeeded in 1970 by
Mar Addai II
References
Mar Aprem,
Mar Thoma Darmo, a Biography, (Trichur: Mar
Narsai Press, 1974).
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