Background
Thoma Darmo was born as Mansour Darmo, son of Elishai and Shirine.
Thoma Darmo was born as Mansour Darmo, son of Elishai and Shirine.
He spent his childhood in Turkey and from 1919 in Iraq becoming a clergy in 1921. He continued to serve in Iraq for 15 years. Then he moved to Syria where he served from 1936 to 1952.
He built a number of churches and established a number of new dioceses in India, encouraged the preparation of new clergy and established the March Narsai Press.
He died the following year on 7 September 1969. He was succeeded in 1970 by Catholicos-Patriarch March Addai World War II
