Jacob Angadiath

{{short description|Indian prelate of the Catholic Church (born 1945)}}

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| honorific-prefix = Mar

| name = Jacob Angadiath

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| title = Bishop Emeritus of Syro-Malabar Diocese of Chicago

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| church = Syro-Malabar Catholic Church

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| diocese = Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of St. Thomas of Chicago

| appointed = March 13, 2001

| enthroned = July 1, 2001

| retired = July 3, 2022

| predecessor = First Eparch

| successor = Mar Joy Alappatt

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| ordination = January 5, 1972

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| consecration = July 1, 2001

| consecrated_by = Varkey Vithayathil, Joseph Pallikaparampil, and Kuriakose Kunnacherry

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|09|26}}

| birth_place = Periappuram, Travancore, British India

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| previous_post = Vicar

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| motto = To love, to serve

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Mar Jacob Angadiath

(born October 26, 1945) is an Indian prelate of the Catholic Church; he was serving as the first bishop of the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago from July 2001 until his retirement on July 3, 2022.{{cite web|title=Bishop Jacob Angadiath|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bangad.html|work=Catholic Hierarchy|accessdate=29 September 2020}}

Biography

Angadiath was born on October 26, 1945, at Periappuram in the princely state of Cochin (modern day Ernakulam District, Kerala) in India. He was sent to Dallas, Texas, in 1984 under the auspices of the Overseas Mission of the Syro-Malabar Church to initiate a Syro-Malabar ministry in the United States.{{Cite web|title=Bishop Mar Jacob Angadiath {{!}} St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Diocese|url=https://www.stthomasdiocese.org/bishop-mar-jacob-angadiath|access-date=2021-04-27|website=www.stthomasdiocese.org|archive-date=April 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427230401/https://www.stthomasdiocese.org/bishop-mar-jacob-angadiath|url-status=dead}}

See also

Episcopal succession

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|title=Eparch of St. Thomas of Chicago

|before= First Eparch

|after= Joy Alappat

|years= 2001–2022 | }}

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{{Syro-Malabar Catholic Church Hierarchy|state=expanded}}

{{Catholicism}}

{{Syriac Christianity}}

References

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