Mar Thoma Darmo

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).
== External links ==
* "Patriarchs of the East" at friesian.com
Category:Church patriarchs
Category:Bishops of the Assyrian Church of the East
Category:1969 deaths
Category:Ancient Church of the East
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