Joseph Parecattil

Joseph Cardinal Parecattil ( born April 1, 1912 in Kindagoor, Kerala, † 20 February 1987 in Kochi, Kerala ) was Archbishop of Ernakulam of the Syro -Malabar Church.

Life

Joseph Parecattil studied in Ernakulam and Chennai the subjects philosophy, Catholic theology and economics. He received his doctorate with a dissertation on Augustine and Pelagius to the doctor of theology and was ordained a priest of the Syro -Malabar rite 1939. Until 1953 he worked as a parish pastor and editor of a Christian newspaper.

In 1953 he was appointed Titular Bishop of Arethusa dei Siri and auxiliary bishop, and in 1956 Archbishop of Ernakulam. In the years 1962 to 1965, he took part in the Second Vatican Council. In the sixties and seventies, he served as President of the Conference of the Syro-Malabar bishops. In 1969, Pope Paul VI. in the College of Cardinals to. In 1972 he was appointed Head of the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Eastern Churches law. In 1984, Joseph Parecattil, as it is called, because of illness, the line of his archbishopric down. He died on 20 February 1987 in Kochi and was buried in St. Mary's Cathedral, Ernakulam.

Controversial is his stance on the reform of the liturgy of the Syro - Malabar. Fearing a " Chaldäisierung " (meaning: binding to the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Babylon), he turned in 1953, increasingly since Vatican II, against all the efforts of the Vatican's Congregation for Eastern Churches, restore the East Syriac liturgy in India in its purest form. They did not apply to him as a nurturing of the Thomas Christians to heritage, but as a result of their (alleged) liturgical colonization by immigrants of the 4th century His concern was rather the inculturation own Malabar liturgy, indian, ostkirchlich and Catholic ( but not latin or Chaldean ) should be.