Joshua Ignathios

**Joshua Mar Ignathios** (an haife shi a 24 ga Mayu 1950) shi ne Bishop na Metropolitan Bishop na Masarautar Mavelikkara na Cocin Katolika na Syro-Malankara a cikin jihar Kerala, Indiya .

## Tarihin iyali da yarinta
An haife shi a Kottarakara, gundumar Kollam a matsayin ɗan Kizhakkevettil Oommen Varghese da Polachirackal Annamma Varghese. Yayi karatun firamare a makarantar St. Mary, Kizhaketheruvu, sannan ya kuma kammala karatunsa na sakandare a makarantar sakandaren gwamnati, Kottarakkara, a 1967.

## Horarwa da nadawa
Ya shiga St. Aloysius Seminary, Trivandrum, a 1967, kuma ya kammala karatun digirin sa a Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum. Yana da ilimin falsafa da ilimin tiyoloji a Seminary na St. Joseph, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, daga 1970-78. An nada shi a matsayin firist a ranar 2 ga Afrilu 1978 ta Babban Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios . Ya yi aiki a cikin majami'u a Kirathoor, Manjathoppu, Vimalapuram, ya ƙara Susaipuram daga shekarar 1978 zuwa 1983. Ya kammala karatunsa daga Kwalejin Kirista, Marthandom, Tamil Nadu, kuma ya sami digirinsa na biyu a Jami'ar Madurai Kamaraj, Tamil Nadu, a 1984. Ya dauki digiri na biyu da na biyu a fannin ilmi daga Jami'ar Kamaraj, Madurai a 1985 da 1987.

Ya yi bincike kan "Shugabanci, Kungiya ta Lafiya tare da Ingancin Makaranta" a kwalejin Ilimi ta Stella Matituna, Chennai kuma ya sami Doctorate daga Jami'ar Madras a 2000. Kamfanin Br Pubinging Corporation ya wallafa karatunsa na digirin digirgir, *Ingancin Makaranta Ta Hanyar Shugabanci & Kungiyoyin Lafiya* a 2003. 

## Aikin mishan
An nada shi a matsayin mashawarcin tashoshin mishan a Padi, Perampur, da Thiruvottiyoor a Chennai a cikin 1983. Ya fara karatun Mar Ivanios sannan kuma ya kafa Makarantar Sakandare mai Alfarma, yana matsayin shugabanta tun daga farkonta. A cikin 1994, ya kafa Kwalejin Mar Gregorios kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin manajan yankin har zuwa 1996.

## Ofishin da aka zaba kuma aka zaba
A cikin Mayu 1996 aka nada shi Vicar Janar na Tarihin Tarihi na Trivandrum. An sanya shi Corepiscopo a cikin 1997. A ranar 15 ga Afrilu 1998 aka naɗa shi Mataimakin Bishop na Tarihin Tarihi na Trivandrum ta Paparoma John Paul II . Babban Bishop na birni Cyril Mar Baselios ya nada shi bishop da sunan Joshua Mar Ignathios a ranar 29 ga Yuni 1998.

Metropolitan Mar Ignathios shi ne Mataimakin Shugaban Kungiyar Kwadago na Kerala Katolika na Babban Taro (KCBC) daga 1998-2000. Ya yi aiki a matsayin Shugaban ta na 2002-2007. An zabe shi Sakataren KCBC kuma ya yi wa Cocin Kerala aiki a wannan matsayin daga 2000-2002. A watan Disambar 2007 aka zabe shi Mataimakin Shugaban KCBC. Ya rike shugabancin kwamitin kwadago na taron Bishop na Katolika na Indiya (CBCI) tun 2002.

Metropolitan Mar Ignathios ya zama Shugaban KCBC saboda rasuwar tsohon shugabanta Archbishop Daniel Acharuparambil a ranar 26 ga Oktoba 2009. 

Majami’ar Holy Episcopal Synod ta Cocin Katolika na Syro-Malankara ta zabe shi Metropolitan na farko na sabuwar masarautar Mavelikkara da aka kafa. Kaddamar da sabuwar masarauta da sanya Mar Ignathios a matsayin babban birninta ya gudana ne a ranar 16 ga Fabrairu 2007.

## Sauran ayyukan
Metropolitan Mar Ignathios memba ne mai aiki na Nilackal Ecumenical Trust. Tare da Bishop-Bishop na Ikklesiyoyin Bishop, Ya yi tafiye-tafiye da yawa na kundin tsarin mulki kuma ya ziyarci cibiyoyin mahajjata na duniya da yawa. Ya kuma ziyarci cibiyar Majalisar Ikklisiya ta Duniya da ke Geneva kuma ya halarci taron kasa da kasa da waccan kungiyar ta shirya, ya kuma halarci sauran tarurrukan kasa da kasa da CBCI da Holy See suka shirya.

## Manazarta