Jacob of Muttuchira

Jacob Pakalomattam (died 1596) was an Archdeacon of the Saint Thomas Christian community in India in the years preceding the Synod of Diamper in 1599. He was a native of Muttuchira and belonged to the Pakalomattam dynastic family. His activities were based in the Church of Ruha d'Qudisha in Muttuchira. He owed his staunch allegiance to the traditionalist Eliah Patriarchate of the Church of the East and Metropolitan Mar Shemon, who was sent to India by Patriarch Eliya VI Barmama.

Life

Archdeacon Jacob was born to the Nadackal line of Pakalomattam family in Muttuchira. The position of Archdeacon is the highest clerical rank in the Church of the East after a bishop. Archdeacon Jacob rejected the Gregorian Calendar and taught his followers to recite the traditional Chaldean raza without the Latin interpolations.