Jacob Angadiath
(born September 26, 1945) is an Indian prelate of the Catholic Church; serving as the first and current bishop of the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago since July 2001. Biography. Angadiath was born on October 26, 1945 at Periappuram in the princily state of Cochin (modern day Ernakulam District, Kerala) in India. He was sent to Dallas, Texas, in 1984 under the auspices of the Overseas Mission of the Syro-Malabar Church to initiate a Syro-Malabar ministry in the United States.