Mar Thoma VI

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Mar Thoma VI
Metropolitan of the Malankara Church
Enthroned 1765
Ended 1808
Predecessor Mar Thoma V
Successor Mar Thoma VII
Died April 8, 1808
Puthencavu
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Mar Thoma VI Metropoitan was initially consencrated by Mar Thoma V , but reconsencrated by Syriac Orthodox bishops and took the name Dionysius.

During his reign,owing to the invasion of Tippu Sultan, the headquarters moved from Angamaly(Present headquarters of Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church) to Kottayam (presently the headquarters of the Indian Orthodox Church).

Mar Thoma VI kept in close contact with the Anglican Church in Kerala. The Anglican missionaries were able to translate four gospels from Syriac to Malayalam. Claudius Bucahanan visited and made arrangement for the translation of the Bible into Malayalam. Marthoma gave him the manuscript of the Bible written in the oldest Syrian. This manuscript was deposited in the public library of the University of Cambridge.[1]

Mar Thoma VI did not approve the appointment of Kattumangattu Abraham Mar Coorilos as a metropoiltan by a bishop from Antioch. This was the beginning of Malabar Independent Syrian Church , known as Thozhiyoor Sabha. Forced to conduct a service according to Catholic rites, but escaped during a rebellion in Travancore under Velu Thampi.[2]

Mar Thoma VI passed away on April 8, 1808 , was laid to rest in Puthencavu at the age of 85.


Preceded by
Mar Thoma V		 Metropolitan of the Malankara Church
1765 – 1808		 Succeeded by
Mar Thoma VII

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  1. ^ Buchanan, Rev. Claudius, LL.D.(1811). Memoir of the Expediency of an Ecclesiastical Establishment for British India. Second Cambridge Edition. Page 76.
  2. ^ Sankunny Menon, P. (1878) A History of Travancore from the Earliest Times, Higgins Botham & co., Madras. Malayalam: Thiruvithancore Charitram (1988 ed.) Page 246.
    1. Juhanon Marthoma Metropolitan, The Most Rev. Dr. (1952). Christianity in India and a Brief History of the Marthoma Syrian Church.. Pub: K.M. Cherian.
    2. Mathew N.M. (2003). St. Thomas Christians of Malabar Through Ages’’, C.S.S. Tiruvalla. ISBN 81-4821-008-8 and CN 80303
    3. Zac Varghese Dr. & Mathew A. Kallumpram. (2003). ‘’Glimpses of Mar Thoma Church History’’. London, England. ISBN 81/900854/4/1
    4. Chacko, T.C. (1936) Malankara Marthoma Sabha Charithra Samgraham’’. (Concise History of Marthoma Church), Pub: E.J. Institute, Kompady, Tiruvalla.
    5. Eapen, Prof. Dr. K.V. (2001). ‘’Malankara Marthoma Suryani Sabha Charitram’’. (History of Malankara Marthoma Syrian Church). Pub: Kallettu, Muttambalam, Kottayam.
    6. Ittoop Writer, (1906). ‘’Malayalathulla Suryani Chistianikauleday Charitram’’. (History of Syrain Christians in the land of Malayalam)
    7. Mathew, N.M. ‘’Malankara Marthoma Sabha Charitram’’, (History of the Marthoma Church), Volume 1.(2006), Volume II (2007). Volume III (to be released in 2008) Pub. E.J.Institute, Thiruvalla


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