Mor Anthonios Yaqub (born 12 July 1952) is a Syriac Orthodox bishop and Metropolitan of the Mangalore Diocese.
His father (ancestors family) was member of St. George's Jacobite Syrian Church, Kalamboor (Kandanad Diocese).
[1] On 3 February 1977 Thomas Mor Osthatheos Metropolitan (his maternal uncle) ordained young Jacob a Korooyo at Malecruz Dayro Church, and he was ordained as ‘Samsono’ (full deacon) on 23 February 1979 by Catholicose Aboon Mor Baselios Paulose II, at Moovattupuzha Catholicate Cathedral.
He got ordained as Cor-Episcopo on 18 February 2003 by Geevargese Mor Polycarpus Metropolitan, at the St. Mary's Soonoro Jacobite Syrian Church, Renjilady and was since then known as Very Rev.
On 23 August 2009 in a ceremony held at the St. Peter's & St. Paul's Cathedral in the Monastery of St. Aphrem the Syrian, Ma`rrat Sayyidnaya, Damascus, Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, the supreme head of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church, ordained Yaq'ub Ramban from India Auxiliary Metropolitan, by name Mor Anthonios Yaqu'b, for the St. Antony's Mission in Honnavar under the Evangelical Association of the East, in the presence of many religious dignitaries and others.