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{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Bishop
| honorific-prefix = [[Excellency|His Excellency]]
| name = Yoohanon Mar Chrysostom
| title = [[Bishop]] of [[Pathanamthitta]]
| image =Yoohanon Mar Chrysostom, Bishop of Pathanamthitta (10).jpg
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| church = [[Syro-Malankara Catholic Church]]
| archdiocese =
| diocese =
| see = [[Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of Pathanamthitta|Eparchy of Pathanamthitta]]
| term = 2010–2019
| predecessor =
| successor = [[Samuel Irenios Kattukallil]]

| ordination = 5 May 1973 (Kashesho), 29 June 1998 (Bishop)
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|5|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Kadammanitta]], [[Pathanamthitta District]], [[Kerala]]
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'''Yoohanon Chrysostom Kalloor''' (born 19 May 1944) was the second [[bishop]] of the [[Eparchy]] of [[Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of Marthandom|Marthandom]] (1998-2010) and first bishop of the Eparchy of [[Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of Pathanamthitta|Pathanamthitta]] (2010-2019) of the [[Syro-Malankara Catholic Church]]. He retired from Pathanamthitta on 7 June 2019 and was succeeded by [[Samuel Irenios Kattukallil]]. He is currently Bishop Emeritus.
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkalloor.html |title=Bishop Yoohanon Chrysostom Kalloor |website=Catholic-hierarchy.org}}</ref>

==Family and education==
Kalloor was the third son of Abraham and Achiyamma of the Kalloor family of [[Kadammanitta]], in [[Pathanamthitta District]]. He received secondary education at Government High School, Kadammanitta, did minor seminary at [[St. Aloysius Seminary, Trivandrum|St. Aloysius Seminary]], [[Trivandrum]], and philosophy and theology at St. Paul's Seminary, [[Tiruchirappalli|Tiruchirappalli (Trichy)]].

==Ministry==
Kalloor was ordained a priest by [[Benedict Mar Gregorios]] on 5 May 1973. He began pastoral ministry as assistant vicar in the parishes around [[Balaramapuram]]. Later he became parochial vicar of Venniyoor, Mulloor, Chowara and Vizhinjam, and later still director of [[St. Johns Leprosy and HIV Care Services]] at [[Pirappancode]].

When the Malankara Catholic Mission in North America was inaugurated, Kalloor was appointed co-ordinator and spent time ministering in the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington|Archdiocese of Washington]]. Based at Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian parish in Washington, DC, he was a chaplain for [[DC General Hospital]] and coordinated ministry for Syro-Malankara rite Catholics in the United States.<ref name="Priest who served in DC named founding bishop of an eparchy in India">{{cite web|url=http://www.adw.org/news/News.asp?ID=729&Year=2010 |title=Archdiocese of Washington |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110110101737/http://www.adw.org/news/News.asp?ID=729&Year=2010 |archivedate=10 January 2011 }}</ref> In 1997 he was made [[chorbishop]].

[[Pope John Paul II]] appointed Kalloor second bishop of the Eparchy of Marthandom on 16 April 1998. He was ordained a bishop with the name Yoohanon Mar Chrysostom by Archbishop [[Cyril Baselios|Cyril Mar Baselios]] at Mar Ivanios Stadium, Trivandrum, on 29 June 1998. He was installed as the bishop of Marthandom on 1 July 1998 at Marthandom Cathedral.

Yoohanon Mar Chrysostom was appointed first bishop of the newly erected Eparchy of Pathanamthitta on 25 January 2010 and enthroned on 20 March 2010.<ref name="malankaracatholicchurch">{{cite web|url=http://pathanamthittadiocese.com/history.html |title=The History of the Eparchy of Pathanamthitta |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715051717/http://pathanamthittadiocese.com/history.html |archivedate=15 July 2011 }}</ref> He served until retiring on 7 June 2019.

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