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Moran Mar Baselios Paulose I or Murimattathil Bava (born at Kolenchery India on January 17 1836 died May 3 1914) was the first Catholicos of the East after its reinstatement in India. The First Catholicos of the Indian Malankara Orthodox Church was in power only for one-and-a-half years (September 15 1912 till his death on May 3 1914). He was 76 years old when he became the Catholicos and died when he was 77 years old.