Baselios Augen I
Baselios Augen I was the 17th Malankara Metropolitan, the fourth Catholicos of the East in the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, and the first Catholicos of India in the Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church. He was the first Catholicos consecrated in a reunified Malankara Church, by the Patriarch of Antioch in 1964 but his tenure saw a second split in the Holy Church.
His Holiness Moran Mar Baselios Augen I Catholicos of the East & Malankara Metropolitan | |
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| Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church | |
| See | Holy Apostolic See of Saint Thomas |
| Installed | 22 May 1964 |
| Term ended | 24 September 1975 |
| Predecessor | Baselios Geevarghese II |
| Successor | Baselios Marthoma Mathews I |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1908 by Sleeba Osthathios |
| Consecration | 15 May 1927 by Ignatius Elias III |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 June 1884 |
| Died | 3 December 1975 (aged 91) Kottayam, Kerala, India |
| Buried | Catholicate Palace, Devalokam, Kottayam, Kerala, India |
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