Born on
August 21, 1940 in Thamarachalpuram, Kizhakkambalam,
Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese, Kerala, India.
Entered in
the CMI religious community, (the first indigenous religious
community in India, started by Blessed Kuriakose Elijah Chavara in
1831 at Mannanam) in June 1956 and professed on May 16, 1961.
Ordained to
priesthood on May 17, 1970 on the great Feast day of Pentecost.
Took
Doctorate in Sacred Liturgy from the Pontifical Liturgical
Institute of St. Anselm, Rome in 1981.
(Doctoral
dissertation: Qyamtha u-Haiye u-Hudatha, Resurrection, Life and
Renewal, “A Theological Study of the Liturgical Celebrations
of the Great Saturday and Sunday of Resurrection in the Chaldeo-Indian
Church”, Rome - Bangalore – Kottayam 1982)
Ordinary
professor of Liturgical Theology in Dharmaram Vidya
Kshetram, Bangalore since 1975. Retired by March 2006.
Was
Associate Professor of Liturgical Theology in the Paurastya
Vidyapitham, Kottayam since 1976.
Was
Visiting Professor to Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune; St. Joseph's
Seminary, Mangalore; St.Peter's Seminary, Christu Jyoti,
Carmelaram, and Redemporist Seminary, Bangalore, etc. on demand.
Founder and
Coordinator of Denha Services (Since 1984, Manganam,
Kottayam-686018), a Fellowship at the Service of the Church, which
has published 65 volumes by 2007.
Was Editor
of the Spirituality Section of Christian Orient, An Indian
Journal of Eastern Churches for Creative Theological Thinking, for
24 years and resigned due to ill health.
Was
Editorial consultant to Dukrana and Kathiroli,
Malayalam monthlies dealing with Liturgy, Catechetics,
Ecclesiology, Church History, Spirituality, etc.
Was member
of Central Liturgical Committee of the Syro-Malabar Church for
several years and resigned in 1993 due to ill health.
Member of
Societas Liturgica, the International Association of Liturgy
Scholars; -of Eastern Theological Association of India
(ETAI), a Voluntary Association in India for in depth and
creative study of Theological issues; -of ASML, the Association
of Syro-Malabar Liturgiologists; -of ARAM, Society for Syro-Mesopotamian
Studies, Oxford, etc.
Is
among the Pioneers of Monasticism in the present day Syro-Malabar
Church (Sisters of St Thomas (SST), Bet-Toma, Palamattom,
Kurumpanadam-686 536, Changanassery, Kerala, India, since 1989)
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