Most Rev. Mathews Mar Athanasius Metropolitan (Mar Thoma XIII)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathews_Mar_Athanasius

http://www.marthomaparishsharjah.com/downloads/pa_malpan.pdf

there was no Bishop to give leadership for the reformation movement. Abraham

Malpan sent his brother’s son Deacon Mathew to the Patriarch of Antioch in Syria.

The Patriarch was impressed by the dedication, hard work, deep Biblical knowledge and intelligence of Deacon Mathew. He ordained him as priest and consecrated him

as Metropolitan, with the name Mathews Mar Athanasius in 1842. After serving the

Churches in Syria he came back to Kerala in 1843. Even though, first he celebrated

the Holy Communion with the old liturgy, later he gave active leadership to the

reformation.

1842 - Consecration of Mathews Mar Athanasius in Mardin, Syria.

1843 - Mathews Mar Athanasius arrives in Cochin from Mardin in Syria.

Another reference of above details from a church publication

14 February, 1843: Consecration of Mathews Mar Athanasius Metropolitan - Mar

Thoma XIII (23 April 1818 - 15 July 1877). Mathews Mar Athanasius,

Palakunnathu, Maramon was the nephew (brother’s son) of the reformation

leader Abraham Malpan (1796—1845). His first teacher was the famous

Christian poet “Chekottu Aasan”. Mathews became deacon at the age of 13 and

after his education at Kottayam and Madras (1837-1840) he was sent to Mardin

in Syria by his uncle Abraham Malpan. During his two year stay and study in

Mardin with the Patriarch, he was consecrated as Bishop at the age of 23, on 14

February 1842 with the name Mathews Mar Athanasius. He returned to Cochin in

1843 and became the Malankara Metropolitan in 1852 through the Royal

declaration of the Maharaja of Travancore.

14 September, 1858: Mulanthuruthy Chathuruthiyil Geevarughese becomes

deacon at the age of ten. Malankara Metropolitian, Maramon Palakunnathu

Mathews Mar Athanasius (MarThoma 13) gives “Koruyo Pattam” (an order just

below the full deaconship) to Geevarughese at the Karingashraya Church,

Mulanthuruthy. Geevarughese became a full deacon in 1865 and in the same

year he became priest and Cor Episcopa. At the age of 28 he became bishop

with the name Geevarghese Mar Gregorios who was later known as Parumala

Thirumeni.