Facts: - title: catholicos patriarch of the east - birth name: mansour darmo - predecessor: none catholicos-patriarch of the ancient church of the east . patriarch mar thoma darmo is the 1st - birth date: 1904 september 21 - parents: elishai mother -rrb- darmo -lrb- father -rrb- and shirine darmo -lrb- - see: apostolic see of seleucia-ctesiphon - caption: his holiness mar thoma darmo - church: ancient church of the east - death date: 7 september 1969 - term end: 7 september 1969 - name: '' ' thoma darmo '' ' - death place: baghdad , iraq - birth place: mesopotamia - previous post: metropolitan -lrb- june 1952 -- october 1968 -rrb- of the church of the east in india - type: list east of patriarchs of the ancient church of the - successor: mar addai ii - ordination: 11 , iraq -rrb- october 1968 at st. zaia cathedral -lrb- baghdad - occupation: clergy - other post: '' ' 120th '' ' catholicos of the east - term start: 11 october 1968 - religion: ancient church of the east - rank: catholicos-patriarch Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of thoma darmo .
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mar thoma darmo , -lrb- b. 21 september 1904 in mesopotamia , iraq -- d. in baghdad on 7 september 1969 -rrb- , was the first catholicos-patriarch of the ancient church of the east from 1968 to 1969 .thoma darmo was born as mansour darmo , son of elishai and shirine .he spent his childhood in turkey and from 1919 in iraq becoming a clergy in 1921 .he continued to serve in iraq for 15 years .then he moved to syria where he served from 1936 to 1952 .in 1952 , he was assigned as metropolitan of the assyrian church of the east , based at trichur , kerala , india until 1968 .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 a schism against the catholicos patriarch mar eshai shimun xxiii because of reform issues introduced by the assyrian church of the east as well as the hereditary system of the patriarchate , he voiced his opposition .this resulted in a split from the church -lrb- then headquartered in san francisco , now headquartered in chicago -rrb- and darmo became one of the founders of the ancient church of the east .subsequently , after three years of the seat of the ancient church of the east remaining vacant -lrb- 1964 -- 1967 -rrb- , mar thoma darmo was elected as head of the new church as its first catholicos-patriarch in october 1968 .he relocated the ancient church of the east to baghdad where the church is headquartered .he died the following year on 7 september 1969 .he was succeeeded in 1970 by catholicos-patriarch mar addai ii