Mar Thoma Darmo, a native of Mesopotamia, was Metropolitan of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1952 to 1968, based at Trichur, Kerala, India. In schism against the Catholicos Patriarch Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII because of reform issues introduced by the Assyrian Church of the East, he voiced his opposition and as a result the rival Ancient Church of the East was established in 1964. Subsequently Mar Thoma Darmo was elected as head of the new church as its first Catholicos-Patriarch in October 1968.
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| - Mar Thoma Darmo, a native of Mesopotamia, was Metropolitan of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1952 to 1968, based at Trichur, Kerala, India. In schism against the Catholicos Patriarch Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII because of reform issues introduced by the Assyrian Church of the East, he voiced his opposition and as a result the rival Ancient Church of the East was established in 1964. Subsequently Mar Thoma Darmo was elected as head of the new church as its first Catholicos-Patriarch in October 1968.
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| - Mar Thoma Darmo, a native of Mesopotamia, was Metropolitan of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1952 to 1968, based at Trichur, Kerala, India. In schism against the Catholicos Patriarch Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII because of reform issues introduced by the Assyrian Church of the East, he voiced his opposition and as a result the rival Ancient Church of the East was established in 1964. Subsequently Mar Thoma Darmo was elected as head of the new church as its first Catholicos-Patriarch in October 1968. He also relocated the Ancient Church of the East to Baghdad. He died the following year in 1969. He was succeeeded in 1970 by Mar Addai II
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