page_title: Aloysius Pazheparambil
section_title: Bishop and Vicar Apostolic
hierarchical_section_title: Aloysius Pazheparambil / Bishop and Vicar Apostolic
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die 3 neuen Apostolischen Vikare der kath. Thomaschristen in Indien, 1896: links Aloysius Pazheparambil, mittig Mathew Makil, rechts John Menachery Polski: Pierwsi hierarchowie syromalabarscy: Aloysius Pazheparambil, Matthew Makil, John Menachery
context_page_description: Mar Aloysius Pazheparambil was the Vicar Apostolic of Ernakulam in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. Originally a monk of the Syrian Carmelites, he was expelled along with nine others in 1875 from the religious order by the local bishop for writing to the Pope asking for an Indian bishop to rule his church. Later in 1896, he became one of three Indian bishops appointed to rule over the three Vicariates Apostolic newly created in his church.
context_section_description: Aloysius Pazheparambil was one of the closest collaborators of the bishops Medlycott Adolph Edwin and Charles Lavigne. On 11 August 1896. he was made the titular bishop of Tymandus and Vicar Apostolic of the new diocese of Ernakulam. He was also made the Apostolic Delegate of India by Archbishop Ladislaus Zaleski on 25 October of that year, at his residence in Kandy (Sri Lanka). On 5 November 1896, Pazheparambil began the governing of his diocese, which he managed with great skill and zeal until his death in 1919. He was given the task of building all new diocesan structures as well as being tasked with allowing the native rite, after centuries of oppression, to unfold again.
  
  His epitaph, written by his episcopal successor Augustine Kandathil, reads: 
  `A Prelate specially devoted to the Blessed Virgin, simple in ways, frugal in habits, ever devoted to the interests of his Rite and Nation, steadfast of purpose, yet tactful in action, a scholar, a linguist, a historian, and a diplomat, he was a great Indian.'
caption: The three new Catholic Apostolic Vicars of. Thomas Christians in India, 1896. From left: Aloysius Pazheparambil, Mathew Makil, John Menachery
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