Abimalek Timotheus
Assyrian priest of the Church of the East
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Mar Abimalek Timotheus (28 August 1878 – 30 April 1945) was an Assyrian priest of the Church of the East who served as Metropolitan of Malabar and All India from 1907 until his death in 1945.[3] Born in the village of Mar Bisho in the Ottoman Empire, he was sent to India by Catholicos-Patriarch Shimun XIX after Shimun received a petition to appoint a bishop from the Chaldean Syrian Church in Trichur (now Thrissur).[3]
Mar Bisho, Ottoman Empire
Trichur, Cochin, British Raj
Saint Mar Abimalek Timotheus | |
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| Metropolitan of Malabar and All India | |
| Born | 28 August 1878 Mar Bisho, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 30 April 1945 Trichur, Cochin, British Raj |
| Venerated in | Assyrian Church of the East |
| Canonized | 29 September 2019, Thrissur by Catholicos-Patriarch Gewargis III |
| Feast | 1 May[1] |
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The Holy Synod of the Assyrian Church of the East announced that Timotheus would be canonised in May 2018 following the adoption of a new procedure for canonisation,[1][4] and his sainthood was formally proclaimed by Catholicos-Patriarch Gewargis III on 29 September 2019.[5]
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