Abimalek Timotheus

Mar Abimalek Timotheus (28 August 1878 – 30 April 1945) was an Assyrian priest of the Church of the East who served as Metropolitan of Malabar and All India from 1907 until his death in 1945.^[3] Born in the village of Mar Bisho in the Ottoman Empire, he was sent to India by Catholicos-Patriarch Shimun XIX after Shimun received a petition to appoint a bishop from the Chaldean Syrian Church in Trichur (now Thrissur).^[3]

Saint Mar Abimalek Timotheus
Metropolitan of Malabar and All India
Born	28 August 1878 Mar Bisho, Ottoman Empire
Died	30 April 1945 Trichur, Cochin, British Raj
Venerated in	Assyrian Church of the East
Canonized	29 September 2019, Thrissur by Catholicos-Patriarch Gewargis III
Feast	1 May[1]

Ordination history of Mar Abimalek Timotheus[2]
History Diaconal ordination Ordained by Mar Shimun XIX Date 7 July 1903 Priestly ordination Ordained by Mar Shimun XIX Date 21 September 1903 Episcopal consecration Principal consecrator Mar Shimun XIX Co-consecrators Mar Yalda Yahballaha Date 15 December 1907 Place Patriarchal Cathedral of Mar Shalita, Qochanis, Ottoman Empire

The Holy Synod of the Assyrian Church of the East announced that Timotheus would be canonised in May 2018 following the adoption of a new procedure for canonisation,^[1][4] and his sainthood was formally proclaimed by Catholicos-Patriarch Gewargis III on 29 September 2019.^[5]