Saju Muthalaly
Varghese Malayil Lukose "Saju" Muthalaly (born 1979) is an Indian-British Anglican bishop. Since 2022, he has been the Bishop of Loughborough, a suffragan bishop in the Church of England's Diocese of Leicester. Early life and education. Muthalaly was born in 1979 in South India Kerala. He grew up in a leprosy hospital in Bangalore, where his mother was a nurse. His family were part of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, and he "committed his life to Christ" as a teenager. He studied at the Southern Asia Bible College in Bangalore, graduating with a Bachelor of Theology  (BTh) degree in 2001. Having moved to the United Kingdom in 2001, he trained for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, an evangelical Anglican theological college, and graduated from the University of Oxford with a further BTh in 2008. Ordained ministry. Muthalaly was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2008 and as a priest in 2009. From 2008 to 2011, he served his curacy at St Thomas' Church, Lancaster, a charismatic evangelical church in the Diocese of Blackburn. He then moved to the Diocese of Carlisle, where he was an associate vicar at St Thomas' Church, Kendal  and St Catherine's Church, Crook from 2011 to 2015. In 2015, he joined St Mark's Church, Gillingham and St Mary's Island in the Diocese of Rochester as priest in charge. He was made vicar of St Mark's Gillingham in 2019. On 12 November 2021, it was announced that Muthalaly had been appointed the next Bishop of Loughborough, the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Leicester, in succession to Guli Francis-Dehqani. He was consecrated a bishop by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 25 January 2022 at St Paul's Cathedral; reportedly becoming the youngest bishop  in the Church of England. Personal life. Muthalaly is married to Katy; together they have four children. In his spare time, he is a keen cricketer and has represented the Canterbury & Rochester (Rocherbury) Diosesan team and West Farleigh CC where he has shone as a big hitting all-rounder. He captained the Diocesan team to the Semi Finals of the Church Times Cup in 2017.