enthroned ended predecessor death_date death_place bishop_of imagesize title buried article_title image ordination diocese name
31 january 1565 1597 mar shimun viii yohannan sulaqa joseph sulaqa , brother of first chaldean patriarch 1597 angamaly saint thomas christians 225 px metropolitan and the gate of all india mar hormizd syro-malabar church , angamaly abraham of angamaly
 mar abraham metropolitan and the gate of all india.jpg 1565 by pope pius iv angamaly abraham
abraham of angamaly

abraham of angamaly -lrb- , mar abraham died c. 1597 -rrb- was the last in the long line of mesopotamin bishops who governed the church of saint thomas christians .
in spite of the express approbation of the pope , he was not welcomed by the portuguese ecclesiastical authorities .
