Jacob Angadiath

Mar Jacob Angadiath
is an Indian prelate of the Catholic Church; he was serving as the first bishop of the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago from July 2001 until his retirement on July 3, 2022.

Biography

Angadiath was born on October 26, 1945, at Periappuram in the princely state of Cochin in India. He was sent to Dallas, Texas, in 1984 under the auspices of the Overseas Mission of the Syro-Malabar Church to initiate a Syro-Malabar ministry in the United States. On July 25, 1992, the St Thomas Syro Malabar Mission Dallas was the first church to be consecrated with Fr. Jacob Angadiath as the first pastor.