Baselios Yeldo

Saint Baselios Yeldo
Tomb of Mor Baselios Yeldo.
(No picture or icon of the saint presently available)
Maphrian of the East
Born1593
Bakhdida, Ottoman Empire
Died29 September 1685
Kothamangalam
Venerated inJacobite Syriac Orthodox Church And Indian Orthodox Church
Oriental Orthodox Christianity
Canonized20 October 1987 by
H.H Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas , Patriarch of Antioch and Supreme Head of Universal Syriac Orthodox Church
Major shrineSt. Thomas Church, Kothamangalam
Feast3 October

Saint Baselios Yeldo (യൽദോ മാർ ബസ്സേലിയോസ് ബാവ) was the Maphrian of the East of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1678 until his resignation in 1684. He is venerated as a saint in the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church and the Indian Orthodox Church and his feast day is 3 October. His tomb is situated in Marthoman Cheriyapally, Kothamangalam and feast is celebrated as Kanni 20th perunnal (കന്നി 20 പെരുന്നാൾ) which gather many pilgrims to the Tomb.

Yeldo was proclaimed as a saint, canonised by Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, on 20 October 1987 and Baselios Geevarghese II, Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan of the Indian Orthodox Church on 2 November 1947.