Aprem Mooken, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Assyrian Church of the East Metropolitan of India
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Place of Birth: Thrissur, Kerala, India
About Aprem Mooken
- 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 History 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 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 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 humour.
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