Name Joy Alappat Consecration September 27, 2014 | Appointed July 24, 2014 Ordination December 31, 1981 | |
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See Titular See of Bencenna In office September 27, 2014 - present | ||
Episcopal ordination of mar joy alappat
Joy Alappat (born September 27, 1956) is an Indian-born bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He has served as the Auxiliary Bishop of the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Chicago since 2014.
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- Episcopal ordination of mar joy alappat
- Communion song at mar joy alappat s ordination
- Early life and ministry
- Episcopacy
- References
Communion song at mar joy alappat s ordination
Early life and ministry
John Joy Alappat was born in Parappukara, Kerala, India. He studied for the priesthood at St. Thomas Apostolic Seminary in Vadavathoor, and was ordained a priest for the Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Irinjalakuda in India on December 31, 1981 by Bishop James Pazhayattil. Alappat continued his studies at St. Joseph’s Pontifical Institute in Aluva an at the Adheva University in Wattair. He was then engaged in pastoral work in Chalkudy, Mala, the cathedral in Irinjalakuda, and as a chaplain in Chennai. In 1993 he was transferred to the United States where he served as a chaplain at the Georgetown University Medical Center where he also completed their clinical pastoral education program. Alappat also served in pastoral assignments in New Milford, Connecticut, Newark and Garfield, New Jersey and as the vicar at the Mar Thoma Shleeha Cathedral in Bellwood, Illinois.
Episcopacy
Pope Francis named Alappat as the Titular Bishop of Bencenna and the Auxiliary Bishop of the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Chicago on July 24, 2014. He was ordained a bishop by Cardinal George Alencherry, the Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly, on September 27, 2014. The principal co-consecrators were Bishops Jacob Angadiath of Chicago and Pauly Kannookadan of Irinjalakuda.