1. Varkey Vithayathil CSsR was an Indian cardinal who served as the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly from 1999 to 2011.
11 Facts About Varkey Vithayathil
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Varkey Vithayathil was a religious priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer.
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Varkey Vithayathil was ordained as a priest on 12 June 1954.
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Varkey Vithayathil was granted a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas in Rome on The Origin and Progress of the Syro-Malabar Hierarchy.
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Varkey Vithayathil taught for 25 years at the Redemptorist seminary in Bangalore.
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Varkey Vithayathil taught different subjects in several other seminaries in Bangalore.
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Varkey Vithayathil was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Ernakulam-Angamaly on 11 November 1996 and was consecrated a bishop on 6 January 1997.
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Varkey Vithayathil was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI.
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The sacerdotal golden jubilee of Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil was celebrated under the auspices of the Syro-Malabar church on 8 November 2003.
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Varkey Vithayathil supported proposals to solemnly proclaim a fifth Marian dogma on the co-redemption and mediation of graces, saying it would be beneficial to the Church and that it would have positive ecumenical effects.
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Varkey Vithayathil died suddenly from a massive heart attack on 1 April 2011.