Yohannan Yoseph

Mar Yohannan Yoseph (born 14 November 1966, in Trichur, India) is a bishop of the Chaldean Syrian Church, a metropolitan province of Assyrian Church of the East in India. He was consecrated on 17 January 2010, by Mar Dinkha IV, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. Previously, he studied at Mar Thoma Theological Seminary in Kottayam (1990-1994), and earned Bachelor of Divinity degree from Serampur University in Calcutta. In 1998, he joined St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute in Kottayam, and earned a Masters degree in Syriac Language and literature (2000) from Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam. He was consecrated as deacon in 1898, and priest in 1999.[1]

Aprem Mooken, with his two bishops, Yohannan Yoseph (left) and Awgin Kuriakose (right)