His HolinessMar Thoma II Darmo
Catholicos Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East
His Holiness Mar Thoma II Darmo
Church	Ancient Church of the East
See	Apostolic See ofSeleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed	11 October 1968[1]
Term ended	7 September 1969
Successor	Mar Addai II
Previous posts	Metropolitan ofIndia (June 1952 – October 1968)
Orders
Ordination	11 October 1968 atSt. Zaia Cathedral (Baghdad,Iraq)
Rank	Catholicos-Patriarch
Personal details
Born	Mansour Darmo (1904-09-21)September 21, 1904 Iyel,Ottoman Empire
Died	September 7, 1969(1969-09-07) (aged 64) Baghdad,Ba'athist Iraq
Denomination	Ancient Church of the East
Parents	Elishai Darmo (father) and Shirine Darmo (mother)
Occupation	Clergy

Thoma Darmo (21 September 1904 – 7 September 1969) was theCatholicos-Patriarch of theAncient Church of the East, from 1968 to 1969. Prior to that, he served as Metropolitan ofIndia, from 1952 to 1964, within theChurch of the East.^[2][3]

Thoma Darmo was born asMansour Darmo, son of Elisha and Shirine. He spent his childhood inTurkey and from 1919 in Iraq, becoming an ordained clergyman in 1921. He continued to serve in Iraq for 15 years. Then he moved to Syria where he served from 1936 to 1952.^[4]

In June 1952, he was assigned asMetropolitan ofIndia, based atTrichur (Kerala), and thus became one of senior hierarchs of theChurch of the East. He built a number of churches and established a number of new dioceses in India, encouraged the preparation of new clergy and established the Mar Narsai Press. In January 1964, he was suspended from the metropolitan office by PatriarchShimun XXI Eshai.^[5][6]

Subsequently, after three years of the seat of theAncient Church of the East remaining vacant (1964–1967), Mar Thoma Darmo was elected asCatholicos-Patriarch in October 1968.^[7]

He relocated theAncient Church of the East to Baghdad where the church is headquartered. He died the following year on 7 September 1969.^[8] He was succeeded in 1970 byCatholicos-PatriarchMar Addai II.

In 1995, under new PatriarchDinkha IV of the rivalAssyrian Church of the East, reconciliation between fractions in India was achieved, and on that occasion the validity of ordinations performed by Thoma Darmo after the suspension of 1964 was recognized, and in 1997 the suspension itself was annulled by the Holy Synod of the Assyrian Church of the East.^[9]

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