Background
Mathalaimuthu, Ambrose was born on July 20, 1925 in Nagalur, India. Son of Margaret Mathalimuthu.
Mathalaimuthu, Ambrose was born on July 20, 1925 in Nagalur, India. Son of Margaret Mathalimuthu.
Doctor in Canon Law, University Probaganda of Fide, Rome, 1954.
Born in Nagalur, Tamil Nadu, he was ordained as a priest on 21 December 1951. He was appointed bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tuticorin on 30 August 1971 and was ordained on 9 December 1971. On 6 December 1979, he was appointed bishop of the Coimbatore Diocese, retiring on 10 July 2002, shortly before his 77th birthday.