I . HIERARCHY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH * Holy See ........................................................ 04 * The Catholic Church ...................................... 06 * The Church in India ....................................... 07 * The Church in Kerala ..................................... 08 * The Syro- Malabar Hierarchy ........................ 09 * The Latin Hierarchy of Kerala ....................... 26 * The Syro- Malankara Hierarchy .................... 28 II. EPARCHY OF IDUKKI * The Bishop .................................................... 31 * General Information ...................................... 33 * Eparchial Administration .............................. 42 Volume 16 * Proto- Presbyterates ..................................... 46 * Parishes and Mission Stations ...................... 49 Published by Clerical Institutions ....................................... 60 The Eparchial Curia, Karimpan, Manippara P.O. * Idukki - 685 602, Kerala, India III. Central Organs of Specialised Apostolates .............. 60 04862 - 230204 Fax: 04862 - 230151 IV. RELIGIOUS OF THE EPARCHY E-mail: [email protected] * Religious Congregations of Men ................... 65 [email protected] * Houses in the Eparchy ................................... 68 Web: www.idukkidiocese.org * Religious Congregations of Women ............... 72 © 2019 Copyright Reserved, Eparchy of Idukki. * Houses in the Eparchy ................................... 80 Eparchial Directory 2019 2 V. INSTITUTIONS * Educational Service ...................................... 93 * Educational Statistical Data ......................... 97 * Special Schools and Rehabilitation Centers.103 * Social Welfare Activities ............................. 103 * Medical Service .......................................... 109 VI. PRIESTS OF THE EPARCHY * Priests Working in the Eparchy .................. 111 * Priests Belonging to the Eparchy of Idukki. 122 * Priests:Batch-wise List ............................... 129 * Priests Incardinated to Other Dioceses ..... 138 Religious Priests from the Eparchy ............... 143 * HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS VII. QUICK REFERENCE 266th Successor of St. Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, * Eparchial Chronicle 2018-2019 .................. 164 The Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, * Seminarians of the Eparchy ....................... 165 The Partriarch of the West and Primate of Italy, The Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, * Summary of Statistics ................................. 166 The Sovereign of the State of Vatican City, The Servant of the Servants of God. VIII. TELEPHONE DIRECTORY Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) was bom on 17 December * Parishes of Kothamangalam Eparchy ......... 168 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was the eldest of five children of Mario Jose Bergoglio, an Italian immigrant railway worker born in Porta- * Parishes of Idukki Eparchy .......................... 171 comaro (Province of Asti) in Italy’s Piedmont region, and his wife Regina * Mobile Numbers of Priests ........................ 173 Maria Sivori, a housewife born in Buenos Aires to a family of northern Eparchial Offices of Idukki ......................... 180 Italian (Piedmontese-Genoese) origin. As a sixth-grade pupil, Bergoglio * attended Wilfrid Baron de los Santos Angeles, a school of the Salesians * Hospitals .................................................... 181 of Don Bosco, in Ramos Mejia in Greater Buenos Aires. He attended the * Generalates and Provincial Houses ........... 182 technical secondary school Escuela Nacional de Educacion Tecnica N° 27 Hipolito Yrigoyen and graduated with a chemical technician’s diploma. He worked for a few years in that capacity in the foods section at Hickethier- Bachmann Laboratory. Bergoglio studied at the archdiocesan seminary, Inmaculada Conception, in Villa Devoto, Buenos Aires City and, after three years, Eparchial Directory 2019 3 Eparchial Directory 2019 4 entered the Society of Jesus as a novice on 11 March 1958. As a Jesuit THE CATHOLIC CHURCH novice he studied humanities in Santiago, Chile. At the conclusion of his The one, holy, apostolic and catholic Church of Christ is a communion novitiate in the Society of Jesus, Bergoglio officially became a Jesuit on 12 March 1960, when he made the religious profession of the initial, of different Churches sui iuris (LG. 8,23; OE, 1-3; UR, 16-17, CCEO, Can.28). At six temporary vows of a member of the order. On 13 December 1969 he was present there are 24 Churches sui iuris in the Catholic communion under ordained a priest. From 1970 to 1971 he completed the third probation ecclesial traditions. at Alcala de Henares, Spain, and on 22 April 1973, pronounced his Ecclesial Tradition Sui iuris Church Heads of the Church perpetual vows. He was novice master at Villa Varilari in San Miguel Roman or Latin Roman Church Pope Francis from 1972 to 1973, where he also taught theology. On 31 July 1973 he Coptic Church Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak was elected as the Jesuit provincial superior for Argentina, a role he served as for six years. Berhaneyesu Demerew Alexandrian Ethiopic Church From 1980 to 1986 Fr. Bergoglio was rector of the Philosophical Souraphiel and Theological Faculty of San Miguel as well as pastor of the Patriarca Eritrean Church Menghesteab Tesfamariam San Jose parish in the Diocese of San Miguel. In March of 1986 he went to Maronite Church Bechara Boutros Rai Germany to finish his doctoral thesis. The superiors then sent him to the Antiochian Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal University of El Salvador and then to Cordoba where he served as a Syro-Malankara Church confessor and spiritual director. On 20 May 1992, John Paul II appointed Syrian Church IgnaceYoussif III Younan him titular Bishop of Auca and Auxiliary of Buenos Aires. He received Armenian Armenian Church Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni Episcopal consecration in the Cathedral of Buenos Aires from Cardinal Chaldean Church Louis RaphaelI Sako Antonio Quarracino, Apostolic Nunzio Ubaldo Calabresi, and Bishop Chaldean or Emilio Ognenovich of Mercedes-Lujan on 27 June of that year. On 3 June East Syriac Syro-Malabar Church George Alencherry 1997 he was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Albanese Church Hil Kabashi succeeded Cardinal Antonio Quarracino on 28 February 1998. He was Byzantine Church of Adjunct Relator General of the 10th Ordinary General Assembly of the Nikola Kekic Synod of Bishops, October 2001. He served as President of the Bishops’ the Krizevci Eparchy Conference of Argentina from 8 November 2005 until 8 November 2011. Belarussian Church Alexander Nadson Archbishop Bergoglio was created and proclaimed Cardinal by Bulgarian Church Christo Proykov Blessed John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 2001, of the Title of Greek Church Dimitri Salachas S. Roberto Bellarmino. He was a member of the Congregations for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments; for the Clergy; and for the Constantinopolitan Greek-Melkite Church Gregorios III Laham Hungarian Church Peter Fulop Kocsis Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life; the Pontifical or Byzantine Council for the Family and the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. Italo-Albanese Church Sotir Ferrara Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope on 13 March Mecedonian Church Kiro Stojanov 2013. He assumed the name Francis and was installed on the throne of Romanian Church Lucian Muresan St. Peter on 19 March 2013. Russian Church No hierarchy Address: Ruthenian Church William C.Skurla His Holiness Pope Francis Slovak Church Jan Babjak 00120 Citta del Vaticano Ukrainian Church Sviatoslav Shevchuk Eparchial Directory 2019 5 Eparchial Directory 2019 6 CONGREGATION FOR THE EASTERN THE CHURCH IN KERALA CHURCHES KERALA CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ COUNCIL (KCBC) Prefect : His Eminence Cardinal Leonardo Sandri Secretary : His Grace Cyril Vasil S J Address : Via della Conciliazione 34, I-00193 Rome, Italy Chairman : Abp. Most Rev. Dr. Soosa Pakiam Tel: 0039 - 06 - 6988-4282,6988 - 4490 Vice Chairman : Bp. Dr. Yoohanon Mar Chrysostom Fax:0039-06-6988-4300 Vice Chairman : Abp. Mar Mathew Moolakkatt THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN INDIA Secretary : Rev. Fr. Varghese Vallikkatt APOSTOLIC NUNCIATURE IN INDIA Address : Pastoral Orientation Centre Apostolic Nuncio : His Grace Giambattista Diquattro Palarivattam, Kochi - 682 025 Apostolic Nuncio 50 C, Niti Marg, Chanakyapuri Tel: 0484 - 2805722, 2805815, 2338214, 2338215 New Delhi 110 021 2805722 - Fax: 0484 - 2338214 Tel: 011-26889187,26889184 Fax:011-26874286 E-mail:[email protected] COMMON CONCERNS THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE OF INDIA (CBCI) 1. Pastoral Orientation Centre 2. Cherupushpa Mission League President : His Eminence Oswald Cardinal Gracias 3. Kerala Catholic Students League (Major Archbishop of Thiruvananthapuram) 4. Kerala Catholic Youth Movement Vice-President 1 : Most Rev. Joshua Mar Ignathios (Bishop of Mavelikara) 5. Catholic Students Movement Vice-President II : Most Rev. George Njaralakatt 6. Kerala Vocation Service Centre (Archbishop of Thalassery) 7. Jesus Fraternity Secretary General : Most Rev. Theodore Mascarenhas SFX 8. Kerala Catholic Council (Aux. Bishop of Ranchi Archdiocese) 9. Kerala Catholic Federation Address : CBCI Centre, Ashok Place 10. Reconcilation Committee Goledakhana, New Delhi - 110001 11. Dalith Catholic Mahajana Sabha Tel: 011-23344695, 23344470 Fax. 011-23364615, 23715146 12. Kerala Social Service Forum E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Web: www.cbci.org Eparchial Directory