He was consecrated on 15 August 2001 at Tirumoolapuram, Tiruvalla, assuming the name Isaac Mar Cleemis.
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Cleemis was installed as the first Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archieparchy of Tiruvalla on 10 June 2006.
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Baselios Cleemis was born on 15 June 1959 as Isaac Thottumkal (alternatively spelled as Thottunkal) in Mukkoor, a small village close to Mallappally Town in Pathanamthitta district in the State of Kerala in South India.
As of 2013, the most recent consistory for the creation of new cardinals took place on 24 November 2012 during which Pope Benedict XVI elevated 6 new cardinals - James Michael Harvey, Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, Baselios Cleemis, John Onaiyekan, Rubén Salazar Gómez and Luis Antonio Tagle.
Baselios Thoma Didymos I | Baselios Thomas I | Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II | Baselios Cleemis |