Abraham Malpan, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAbraham Malpan
Indian churchman
Date of Birth: 30-May-1796
Date of Death: 09-Sep-1845
Profession: priest, cleric
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Abraham Malpan
- Palakunnathu Abraham Malpan (???????????? ??????? ???????), also known as the Martin Luther of the East (30 May 1796 – 9 September 1845) was an Indian cleric of the Malankara Church.
- He was born in the ancient Syrian Christian Palakunnathu family which practiced Knanaya West Syriac Rite Oriental Orthodoxy after the Coonan Cross Oath of 1653. Abraham Malpan translated and revised the West Syriac liturgy, restoring the Church to what he considered to be its pristine position before the Synod of Diamper in 1599.
- He therefore strove hard for the abolition of auricular confession, prayers for the dead, intercession of saints, and veneration of sacraments.
- Further he emphasised the reading and study of the Bible, family-worship and evangelistic work.
- He insisted on a high moral standard of conduct for laity and clergy.
- All this created a ferment in the Church and its effects are still discernible in the Malankara Church as a whole.
- This led to the formation of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church in 1898.
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