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== Early life == | == Early life == | ||
George Mooken was born on 13 June 1940 in [[Thrissur]], [[ | [[File:With other prelates.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Aprem Mooken, with his two bishops, Yohannan Yoseph (left) and Awgin Kuriakose (right).]] | ||
George Mooken was born on 13 June 1940 in [[Thrissur]], [[Kingdom of Cochin]], [[British India]]. Educated in India, England, and America, he specialized in Church History. He served as President of the Church History Association of India between 1976 and 1982. He studied at [[Leonard Theological College]], Jabalpur for B.D. | |||
George Mooken gained [[master's degrees]] in Church History from both the [[United Theological College, Bangalore]] (1966) and the [[Union Theological Seminary, New York]] (1967). He was ordained a deacon on 25 June 1961, and a priest four years later on 13 June 1965. He was consecrated Bishop on 21 September 1968, by [[Mar Thoma Darmo]], Catholicos Patriarch of the [[Ancient Church of the East]], taking the name Mar Aprem Mooken, and promoted as a [[Metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the [[Ancient Church of the East]] eight days later in Baghdad.<ref>Aprem, ''The Assyrians in Iraq'', 39–41</ref> Then later, in 1999, mooken re- joined the Assyrian church of the East. He was instrumental in healing the rift that had developed in the church over the question of hereditary appointments since the 1960s. | |||
George Mooken gained master's degrees in Church History from both the [[United Theological College, Bangalore]] (1966) and the [[Union Theological Seminary, New York]] (1967). He was ordained a deacon on 25 June 1961, and a priest four years later on 13 June 1965. He was consecrated Bishop on 21 September 1968, taking the name Mar Aprem Mooken, and promoted as a [[Metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] eight days later in Baghdad<ref>Aprem, ''The Assyrians in Iraq'', 39–41</ref> | |||
== Publications == | == Publications == | ||
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====Biographies==== | ====Biographies==== | ||
* {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Mar Thoma Darmo: A Biography|year=1974|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https:// | * {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Mar Thoma Darmo: A Biography|year=1974|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https://archive.org/details/marthomadarmobio0000mara}} | ||
* {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Mar Abimalek Timotheus: A Biography|year=1975|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https:// | * {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Mar Abimalek Timotheus: A Biography|year=1975|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https://archive.org/details/marabimalektimot0000mara}} | ||
* {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Strange But True: An Honest and Humorous Autobiography of the Youngest Indian Archbishop|year=1981|location=Trivandrum|publisher=Maryland Printers and Publishers|url=https:// | * {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Strange But True: An Honest and Humorous Autobiography of the Youngest Indian Archbishop|year=1981|location=Trivandrum|publisher=Maryland Printers and Publishers|url=https://archive.org/details/strangebuttrueho0000mara}} | ||
* {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Mar Abdisho Thondanat: A Biography|year=1987|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZxKAAAAMAAJ}} | * {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Mar Abdisho Thondanat: A Biography|year=1987|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZxKAAAAMAAJ}} | ||
* {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Not So Strange: 2nd Part of an Honest and Humorous Autobiography|year=1991|location=Trichur|publisher=Author′s publication|url=https:// | * {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Not So Strange: 2nd Part of an Honest and Humorous Autobiography|year=1991|location=Trichur|publisher=Author′s publication|url=https://archive.org/details/notsostrangeseco0000mara}} | ||
* {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV: The Man and His Message|year=2004|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https:// | * {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV: The Man and His Message|year=2004|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https://archive.org/details/patriarchmardink0000mara}} | ||
====Church History==== | ====Church History==== | ||
* {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=The Nestorian Fathers|year=1976|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https:// | * {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=The Nestorian Fathers|year=1976|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https://archive.org/details/nestorianfathers0000mara}} | ||
* {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Nestorian Missions|year=1976|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https:// | * {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Nestorian Missions|year=1976|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https://archive.org/details/nestorianmission0000mara}} | ||
* {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=The Chaldean Syrian Church in India|year=1977|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QwkuAAAAYAAJ}} | * {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=The Chaldean Syrian Church in India|year=1977|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QwkuAAAAYAAJ}} | ||
* {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=The Council of Ephesus of 431|year=1978|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https:// | * {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=The Council of Ephesus of 431|year=1978|location=Trichur|publisher=Mar Narsai Press|url=https://archive.org/details/councilofephesus0000mara}} | ||
*''Sacraments of the Church of the East''. 1978. | *''Sacraments of the Church of the East''. 1978. | ||
*''Nestorian Theology''. 1978. | *''Nestorian Theology''. 1978. | ||
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*''Western Missions Among Assyrians''. 1982. | *''Western Missions Among Assyrians''. 1982. | ||
*''A Nestorian Bibliography''. 1982. | *''A Nestorian Bibliography''. 1982. | ||
* {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Indian Christian: Who is Who|year=1983|location=Bombay|publisher=Bombay Parish|url=https:// | * {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=Indian Christian: Who is Who|year=1983|location=Bombay|publisher=Bombay Parish|url=https://archive.org/details/indianchristianw0000mara}} | ||
* {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=The Chaldean Syrian Church of the East|year=1983|location=Delhi|publisher=National Council of Churches in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMoP4lsmGXoC}} | * {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=The Chaldean Syrian Church of the East|year=1983|location=Delhi|publisher=National Council of Churches in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMoP4lsmGXoC}} | ||
*''Good News Festivals in India''. 1984. | *''Good News Festivals in India''. 1984. | ||
*''Indian Christian Directory''. 1984. | *''Indian Christian Directory''. 1984. | ||
*''Mar Aprem, Theologian & Poet''. 1990. | *''Mar Aprem, Theologian & Poet''. 1990. | ||
* {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=The History of the Assyrian Church of the East in the Twentieth Century|year=2003|location=Kottayam|publisher=St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute|url=https:// | * {{Cite book|last=Mooken|first=Aprem|author-link=Aprem Mooken|title=The History of the Assyrian Church of the East in the Twentieth Century|year=2003|location=Kottayam|publisher=St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofassyria0018mara}} | ||
*''Lectures on Indian Church History''. 2007. | *''Lectures on Indian Church History''. 2007. | ||