Baselios Augen I
Baselios Augen I | |
|---|---|
| Syriac Orthodox Church in India Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church | |
| See | Kottayam |
| Installed | 22 May 1964 |
| Term ended | 24 September 1975 |
| Predecessor | Baselios Geevarghese II |
| Successor | Baselios Marthoma Mathews I (in Malankara Orthodox Lineage) Baselios Paulose II (in Malankara Jacobite Lineage) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1908 by Sleeba Osthathios |
| Consecration | 15 May 1927 by Ignatius Elias III |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 June 1884 |
| Died | 8 December 1975 (aged 91) |
| Buried | Catholicate Palace, Devalokam, Kottayam, Kerala, India |
Baselios Augen I (26 June 1884 – 3 December 1975) was the 17th Malankara Metropolitan, the fourth Catholicos of the East in the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. He was the first Catholicos consecrated in a reunified Malankara Church, by the Patriarch of Antioch in 1964 and his tenure saw a second split in the church.