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Who became Mar Thoma I after the Coonan Cross oath?

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Following the Coonan Cross oath in 1653, Archdeacon (Ramban) Parambil Tumi was installed as the first indigenous prelate of the Thomas Christians, taking the title Mar Thoma I.1