Moran Mor Athanasius Yohan (formerly known as K P Yohannan), head of the Bishop of Believers Eastern Church, died on May 8 at Dallas in the US. He was 74. The Church leader was hospitalized after he sustained serious wounds in a car accident. A press statement from the Church headquarters said the death occurred due to a sudden cardiac arrest.
He was born on March 8, 1950, in a Mar Thoma Syrian Church family in Kerala, India. He was the founder and president of the Gospel for World, earlier known as Gospel for Asia, a large non-profit missions organization with a focus on India and Asia. He was also the founding Metropolitan Bishop of Believers Eastern Church (Earlier Believers Church) with the religious title and name of Moran Mor Athanasius Yohan I.
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