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Metropolitan of Chaldean Syrian Church Mar Aprem Passes Away

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July 08, 2025

MAR Aprem Mooken, Metropolitan of the Chaldean Syrian Church, also known as the Assyrian Church of the East in India, passed away on Monday due to age-related ailments at a private hospital in Thrissur. He was 85.

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Born George Mooken on June 13, 1940, Mar Aprem completed his education in church history from the New York Union Theological Seminary in the United States.

He was anointed as a deacon on June 25, 1961, before being ordained a priest four years later. He was consecrated a bishop in 1968 by Mar Thoma Darmo, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East. Eight days later, he was conferred the title of metropolitan. In 1999, he returned to the Chaldean Syrian Church.

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