John Perumattam

John Perumattam MSTA ( born November 3, 1921 in Kakkoor, India, † June 18, 2011 in Ujjain ) was Syro- Malabar Bishop of Ujjain.

Life

John Perumattam was born the son of a Syro- Malabar family in Kakkoor. After finishing school in 1942 he attended from June, the St. Thomas minor seminary in Chaganachery. On March 11, 1951 he was ordained priest by Bishop Sebastian Vayalil. ( His younger brother was also a priest. Of his three sisters was a nun. ) After six months of activity in Kerala, he was sent to Rome to study. There he received a doctorate in Church and Civil Law at the Pontifical Lateran University in 1956 and returned back to Kerala. Perumattam has now worked in the diocese of Palai, among other things, he became in 1968 Rector of Good Shepherd Minor Seminary. After twelve years in the state of Kerala Perumattam went in 1968 in the districts of Ujjain, Shajapur and Rajgarh to do missionary work there. When the Congregation Missionary Society of St. Thomas the Apostle ( MST) was founded in the same year, Perumattam became its first Director General.

Paul VI. appointed him on 29 July 1968 Apostolic Exarch of Ujjain. With the elevation of the Exarchate to the diocese on 26 February 1977, he became the first bishop of Ujjain. The Bishop of Palai, Sebastian Vayalil, donated to him on 15 May of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Were co-consecrators Louis Eugene D' Souza MSFS, Archbishop of Bhopal, and George Marian Anathil SVD, Bishop of Indore. One of his most important projects as a bishop was the establishment of Kripa Social Welfare Society.

On 4 April 1998, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related.