Commemorations
Mar Thoma I – April 25
Mar Thoma I, also known as “Valiya Mar Thoma” (Mar Thoma the Great), is the first native, democratically elected, indigenously selected Metropolitan bishop of the Malankara Church, after the Coonen Cross Oath in Jan 1653 AD. Prior to this the Malankara Church was ruled by Malankara Moopens (elders). He had led Read more
