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“WASHINGTON (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI has established an apostolic exarchate for the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in the United States and appointed Father Thomas Naickamparampil as its first bishop. The pope also named the priest apostolic visitator for Syro-Malankara Catholics in Canada and Europe. Creation of the exarchate and the priest’s appointments were publicized in Washington July 14 by Msgr. Jean-Francois Lantheaume, charge d’affaires at the apostolic nunciature in Washington. Bishop-designate Naickamparampil is a priest of the Archeparchy of Trivandrum, India. An apostolic exarchate in the Eastern Catholic Church – the equivalent of an apostolic vicariate in the Latin church – is created by the Vatican for the pastoral care of Catholics in an area outside the territory of the Eastern Catholic Church to which they belong. An apostolic visitator is a papal representative who is charged with familiarizing himself with the situation of a given community and reporting on its status to the Vatican. Bishop-designate Naickamparampil was born on June 6, 1961, in Mylapra, a village in Pathanamthitta district in the southern state of Kerala. He was ordained a priest Dec. 29, 1986. He has a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. The headquarters of the new exarchate will be at the Malankara Catholic center in New Hyde Park, N.Y. The Malankara Catholic Church on Long Island will be its main parish.”
“WASHINGTON (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI has established an apostolic exarchate for the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in the United States and appointed Father Thomas Naickamparampil as its first bishop. The pope also named the priest apostolic visitator for Syro-Malankara Catholics in Canada and Europe. Creation of the exarchate and the priest’s appointments were publicized in Washington July 14 by Msgr. Jean-Francois Lantheaume, charge d’affaires at the apostolic nunciature in Washington. Bishop-designate Naickamparampil is a priest of the Archeparchy of Trivandrum, India. An apostolic exarchate in the Eastern Catholic Church – the equivalent of an apostolic vicariate in the Latin church – is created by the Vatican for the pastoral care of Catholics in an area outside the territory of the Eastern Catholic Church to which they belong. An apostolic visitator is a papal representative who is charged with familiarizing himself with the situation of a given community and reporting on its status to the Vatican. Bishop-designate Naickamparampil was born on June 6, 1961, in Mylapra, a village in Pathanamthitta district in the southern state of Kerala. He was ordained a priest Dec. 29, 1986. He has a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. The headquarters of the new exarchate will be at the Malankara Catholic center in New Hyde Park, N.Y. The Malankara Catholic Church on Long Island will be its main parish.”
