Founding Mar Thoma Patriarchs

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 – 2020