Aprem Mooken

His Holiness Mar
Aprem Mooken
Metropolitan of the Chaldean Syrian Church of India
Mar Aprem Mooken in India.
Church Chaldean Syrian Church
See Marth Mariam Cathedral
Appointed 28 September 1968
Orders
Consecration 21 September 1968, Baghdad, Iraq (Metropolitan)
by Shimun XXI Eshai
Rank Metropolitan
Personal details
Birth name George Mooken
Born (1940-06-13) 13 June 1940
Thrissur, Kerala, India
Denomination Chaldean Syrian Church
Residence Thrissur, Kerala, India
Occupation Cleric
Alma mater Serampore University, Mahatma Gandhi University, St. Thomas College, Thrissur

Aprem Mooken is the Metropolitan of the Assyrian Church of the East in India or Chaldean Syrian Church. Aprem (formerly George Mooken) was born in Thrissur, Kerala, India, on 13 June 1940. Educated in India, England and America, he specialized in Church History. He served as President of the Church Hiustory Association of India between 1976 and 1982.He studied at Leonard Theological College, Jabalpur for B.D.

He gained master's degrees in Church History from the United Theological College, Bangalore (1966) and from the Union Theological Seminary, New York (1967). He studied at the Princeton Theological Seminary, U.S.A. for a Doctor of Theology degree when he was consecrated Bishop in Baghdad, Iraq in 1968. He earned his D.Th. degree in 1976 from Serampore University. Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam granted a Ph.D. degree in Syriac Studies to him in 2002.

Mooken was ordained a deacon on 25 June 1961, and a priest four years later on 13 June 1965. He was consecrated Bishop on 21 September 1968 and promoted as a Metropolitan eight days later in Baghdad.[1] for the Ancient Church of the East. In 1995 he was instrumental in healing the rift that had developed in the church over the question of hereditary appointments since the 1960s. He is the author of 65 books on church history, theology, social issues, and even humour.

Selected works:

  • Mooken, Aprem (2003). The History of the Assyrian Church of the East in the Twentieth Century. Kottayam: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Aprem, The Assyrians in Iraq, 39–41

References

  • Aprem, Strange but True (Trivandrum, 1981).
  • Aprem, Not so Strange: 2nd Part of an Honest and Humorous Autobiography (Trichur, 1991).
  • Aprem, The Assyrians in Iraq: A Travelogue (Trichur, 1990).
  • In Depth Biography Aprem Mooken
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