Silvanos Ayub is the Metropolitan of the Malankara Syrian Knanaya Archdiocese . He was born on April 18, 1972. He received his first four orders of ordination on November 11, 1995, the fifth order on May 27, 1997 and became a full deacon on June 7, 1999. He was ordained as priest on August 6, 1999 by H. E. Mor Clemis Abraham, the Chief Metropolitan of the East.
He completed his pre-degree and graduate courses at Calicut University in Kerala, India and later he joined to study theology at Serampore College, Calcutta, India and obtained Bachelor of Divinity degree (B. D) in 1999. In 2002 he went to Damascus, Syria for Syriac studies and he spent more than a year in St. Ephrem Theological Seminary, Damascus. In 2003, he completed Master of Theology (M.Th) from University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Furthermore, in order to enhance his knowledge and wisdom in Syriac language he joined the Oxford University and successfully completed his Master of Syriac Studies (M. St) in 2005. In 2014 he completed his Doctoral studies and obtained PhD from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom in Liturgical Theology. He is the first Metropolitan obtaining a doctoral degree in the history of the Knanaya Community.
In March 2008, the Malankara Suriyani Knanaya Association (MSKA) choose him as new assistant Metropolitan for the Archdiocese and accordingly raised to the order of Ramban in May 2008. H. E. Mor Silvanos Ayub was elevated to high priesthood on June 11, 2008 by His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas. On February 1, 2009 he took in charge of America, Canada and Europe region of the Knanaya Archdiocese and on April 30, 2009, he was elevated to Archbishop of America, Canada and Europe of the Knanaya Archdiocese by His Holiness Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, the Patriarch of Antioch.