Baselios Yeldo (original) (raw)

Saint Baselios Yeldo was the Maphrian of the East of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1678 until his resignation in 1684. He is venerated as a saint in the Syriac Orthodox Church, Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church and Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and his feast day is 3 October. Yeldo was proclaimed a saint by Geevarghese II, Catholicos of the East & Malankara Metropolitan, on 2 November 1947, and later also by Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, on 20 October 1987.