congregations death_date death_place writings pseudonym birth_place imagesize nationality title offices_held birth_date image article_title name ordained occupation bgcolour
archdiocese of pondicherry and cuddalore 25 may 1990 mysore , karnataka '' destiny of the church in india today '' '' swamy amalorananda '' kallery , tamil nadu 175px indian reverend doctor pastor in viriyur 15 june 1932 amalorpavadass.jpg d. s. amalorpavadass
 d. s. amalorpavadass 12 april 1959 theologian silver
d. s. amalorpavadass

duraiswami simon amalorpavadass -lrb- 15 june 1932 -- 25 may 1990 -rrb- was a catholic south-indian theologian who played a vital role in the renewal of life and mission of the roman catholic church in india , particularly after vatican ii .
he was fluent in tamil , french and english .
he is the younger brother of cardinal lourdusamy .
father bevans , in a paper presented to celebrate 30 years of `` evangelii nuntiandi '' , writes that amalorpavadass was one of the two special secretaries on the synod of bishops for 1974 convened by pope paul vi which took up the theme `` evangelization in the modern world '' who proposed an interpretation that took into account many of the important movements in asia and other parts of the third world .
his ideas revolved around a greater role for the local church and the emergence of the theology of liberation .
amalorpavadass was a member of the ecumenical association of third world theologians
