Joseph Mar Koorilose IX is a metropolitan and Primate of the Malabar Independent Syrian Church from 1986 to 2001. He died on 7 September 2014.[1] [2] [3]
| Joseph Mar Koorilose IX | |
| Church: | Malabar Independent Syrian Church |
| Ordination: | 5 March 1972 by Paulose Mar Philoxinose II |
| Consecration: | 27 August 1986 by Alexander Mar Thoma |
| Term Start: | 1986 |
| Ended: | 2001 |
| Predecessor: | Mathews Mar Koorilose VIII |
| Successor: | Cyril Baselios I |
| Birth Name: | Joseph |
| Birth Date: | 26 November 1954 |
| Birth Place: | Kunnamkulam |
| Death Place: | Kunnamkulam, Kerala, India |
| Buried: | St George's Cathedral,Thozhiyoor |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Honorific Suffix: | Metropolitan of Thozhiyoor |
| Rank: | Metropolitan |