In 1998, he founded the Syro-Malankara rite Kristiya Sanyasa Samaj, Kurisumala Ashram in Kerala, India.
Jean Richard Mahieu was born on 17 January 1912 in Ypres, Belgium to a farming family.
[5] Acharya traveled to Iraq and procured original Syriac prayers of the Antiochean rite (the Penqito).
Over nearly two decades, he translated selected portions into four volumes totaling 2300 pages, named Prayer with the Harp of the Spirit, with certain adaptations to Indian culture.
Published books include; Acharya died at Tiruvalla on the morning of 31 January 2002, after receiving Holy Communion.