Background
Bishop Joseph Kalathiparambil was born on October 6, 1952 in Vaduthala, a suburb of the city of Cochin in Kerala, India.
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Bishop Kalathiparambil is fluent in speaking and writing Malayalam, English, Italian and Latin. Bishop Joseph was ordained a priest on March 13, 1978 by Archbishop Joseph Kelanthara of the Verapoly Archdiocese.He is specialized in Canon Law from Rome and was appointed Vice Rector of Collegio San Paolo in Rome from 1984 to 1989. Later he moved back to Kerala and was appointed Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Verapoly on August 15, 1989.
He served as the Chancellor for the Archdiocese from 1989 to 1996.
He was granted the title of Chaplain of His Holiness, Monsignor, in 1989 by Pope John Paul World War II On November 6, 1996, he was made the Vicar General of Archdiocese of Verapoly. He was advanced to the papal Prelacy of Honour on January 31, 2001.
He served as the Vicar-General of the Archdiocese from 1996 to 2002. He was nominated Bishop of Calicut on April 19, 2002 and was consecrated on May 19, 2002.
He served as the Bishop of Calicut for almost 9 years and was then appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as the Secretary of the on February 22, 2011.
The motto of the Bishop"s Coat of Arms is "Love is the greatest of all" ("Super Omnia Caritas") (I Cor 13: 13). On February 22, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bishop Joseph Kalathiparambil the Secretary of the After serving as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Calicut for almost 9 years, Bishop Joseph returned to Rome to take up his new appointment. He worked under Pope Benedict XVI for two years until Benedict"s resignation as pope.
He continued to serve under Benedict"s successor, Pope Francis.
He has served mass with Pope Francis. On September 28, 2011, a day before World Maritime Day, Bishop Joseph Kalathiparambil visited the Portuguese of Tilbury, the principal Portuguese for London.
The main purpose of this visit was to oversee the work of the Catholic Maritime Agency, Apostleship of the Sea. Bishop Joseph also attended the launch of the Maritime Piracy – Humanitarian Response Programme in London.
This was one of his first official overseas visits as Secretary of the.
Membership
On March 5, he was also appointed as a Member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
