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Abimalek Timotheus

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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 byCatholicos-Patriarch Gewargis III
Feast	1 May^[1]

Ordination history of
Mar Abimalek Timotheus^[2]

History
Diaconal ordination
Ordained by	Mar Shimun XIX
Date	7 July 1903
Priestly ordination
Ordained by	Mar Shimun XIX
Date	21 September 1903
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Mar Shimun XIX
Co-consecrators	Mar Yalda Yahballaha
Date	15 December 1907
Place	Patriarchal Cathedral of Mar Shalita,Qochanis,Ottoman Empire

Mar Abimalek Timotheus (28 August 1878 – 30 April 1945) was anAssyrian priest of theChurch of the East who served as Metropolitan of Malabar and All India from 1907 until his death in 1945.^[3] Born in the village of Mar Bisho in theOttoman Empire, he was sent to India byCatholicos-Patriarch Shimun XIX after Shimun received a petition to appoint a bishop from theChaldean Syrian Church inTrichur (now Thrissur).^[3]

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,^[1]^[4] and his sainthood was formally proclaimed byCatholicos-Patriarch Gewargis III on 29 September 2019.^[5]

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^^a ^bAssyrian 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). Retrieved30 January 2020.
^Mooken, Aprem (1975).Mar Abimalek Timotheus: A Biography. Trichur: Mar Narsai Press. pp. 6, 13.
^^a ^bCoakley, James F. (2018)."Timotheus, Abimalek".Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition. Beth Mardutho. Retrieved30 January 2020.
^"Sainthood for Mar Abimalek Timotheus".The Times of India. 28 September 2019. Retrieved30 January 2020.
^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". Retrieved30 January 2020.

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.

Church of the East titles
Vacant Title last held by Abdisho Thondanatta	Metropolitan of Malabar and All India 1907–1945	Vacant Title next held by Thoma Darmo