Bishop of Mississauga (Syro-Malabar)
Msgr. Jose Kalluvelil was born on 15 November 1955 in Thottuva, in the eparchy of Palai, India. He was ordained a priest for the eparchy of Palghat on 18 December 1984, and subsequently served in several parishes, including Saint Raphael’s Cathedral, Palakkad. He also held the position of director of the residences for young people and, after obtaining his doctorate in catechetical theology at the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome, he was appointed as eparchial director of catechesis. In 2013 he transferred to Toronto to serve as chaplain of the Siro-Malabarese faithful. On 6 August 2015, His Holiness Pope Francis appointed him as first apostolic exarch for the Syro-Malabar faithful living in Canada, elevating him to the dignity of bishop and assigning him the titular see of Tabalta. In addition to Malayalam and English, he speaks Italian and German. Informative note The eparchy of Mississauga of the Syro-Malabars Mississauga, the see of the new circumscription, is a city in the metropolitan area of Toronto, but the territory of the new eparchy includes the entire country of Canada, where the Syro-Malabar population has reached around 20,000 faithful. Pastoral governance is organized in 12 parishes and 34 missions. In these there are 23 priests, secular and religious, with 7 seminarians in formation for the new eparchy. There are also 12 women religious who carry out pastoral activity. The Cathedral of Saint Alphonsa and the eparchial Curia are located at 6630 Turner Valley Road, Mississauga, Ontario. The eparchy is immediately subject to the Apostolic See. Transfer of the archbishop of Teheran of the Chaldeans to the archiepiscopal see of Diarbeki His Beatitude Cardinal Louis Raphaël, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, with the consent of the Synod of Bishops of the Chaldean Church and informing the Apostolic See, has transferred H.E. Msgr. Ramzi Garmou, archbishop of Tehran of the Chaldeans, to the archiepiscopal see of Diarbekir of the Chaldeans, Turkey. H.E. Msgr. Ramzi Garmou H.E.