This is a list of Catholicos of the East. Presently the Catholicos have jurisdiction over the Syriac Orthodox Christians in India.
The Catholicate was established as a bishopric initially by Apostle Thomas in Edessa, Mesopotamia during his Eastern mission. The see was elevated to a titular Catholicate during the days of Mar Papa bar Gaggai. Jurisdiction over the entire Eastern Church was confirmed to the Catholicate with the blessings of Patriarchate of the Syriac Orthodox Church sending Marutha of Maiperqat to the Persian region during the reign of Persian Emperor Yesgargh in 410 AD. The see was then moved to Selucia-Ctesiphon, the capital of Persian Empire and then to Tigris and Mosul in Iraq following the Nestorian Schism in the church. The see was reinstated in India by the Patriarch of Antioch in 1912 AD.
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