Diocesan Metropolitan
Metropolitan His Grace Zachariah Mar Nicholovos was born on August 13, 1959
in the famous Poothiyottu family at Mepral. His boyhood name was Cheriyachen. He has three brothers and one sister.
He studies in different schools in Kerala until he finished his High school. The first two years of his
college education was in Malabar Christian College. He received his BA (English) from the St. Joseph College,
Devagiri (Calicut University). He continued his studies in Theology at United Theological College, Bangalore and
received a Bachelors of Divinity and a Masters of Theology.
His Grace Kuriakose Mar Coorilose ordained him Deacon on January 4th, 1986 and priest on May 16, 1990 at his
home parish St. John's Church, Mepral. His Beatitude Mar Baselios Paulose II professed him as Ramban on August 5,
1993 at Moovattupuzha. His Holiness Moran Mar Ignatius Zakka Iwas I, Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church of
Antioch, consecrated him as Metropolitan on August 15, 1993.
Metropolitan Mar Nicholovos served as the Ecumenical Secretary of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church and taught
as a professor at the Malankara Syrian Seminary at Mulanthuruthy. His ecumenical activities led him to serve as a
member of the Syrian Orthodox - Roman Catholic Dialogue Commission. His Grace remains very active in the Ecumenical
and Inter-Religious movements. Metropolitan Mar Nicholovos was appointed as the Assistant Metropolitan of the
American (Northeast American) Diocese in 2002. On February 26th 2011, His Holiness Baselius Mar Thoma Paulose II appointed Metropolitan Mar Nicholovos as the Metropolitan of the
Northeast American Diocese .