Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Acharya, Francis Mahieu, Fr., O.S.C.O.
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Acharya, Francis Mahieu, Fr., O.S.C.O., 1911-2002
Other form(s) of name
- Fr. Francis Mahieu Acharya
- Francis Mahieu, Acharya, Fr. Francis Acharya, Dom Francis Acharya
- Francis Mahieu, Acharya, Fr.
- Fr. Francis Acharya
- Dom Francis Acharya
- Dom Francis Mahieu Acharya
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1911-2002
History
Fr. Francis Mahieu Acharya, a native of Belgium who later became a Cistercian monk there, came to India in 1955 and founded a monastery in 1958. He was a pioneer in a rebirth of Syriac monasticism and of blending it with Indian spiritual traditions, such as the Upanishads, and was later Acharya, or "teacher" (and abbot), of the Kurisumala Ashram. They became officially a part of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) in 1988 and follow the liturgy of the Syro-Malankara Church (a Catholic Church in communion with Roman Catholicism).