Archbishop Sebastian Vaniyapurackal

Archbishop of Kalyan (Syro-Malabar), India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Mar 1967		Born
30 Dec 1992	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar), India
1 Sep 2017	50.4	Appointed	Curial Bishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar), India
1 Sep 2017	50.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Troyna
12 Nov 2017	50.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Troyna
7 Dec 2023	56.6	Appointed	Archiepiscopal Administrator of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar), India
9 Jan 2024	56.7	Ceased	Archiepiscopal Administrator of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar), India
28 Aug 2025	58.4	Appointed	Archbishop of Kalyan (Syro-Malabar), India
19 Oct 2025	58.5	Installed	Archbishop of Kalyan (Syro-Malabar), India

MicroData Summary
Sebastian Vaniyapurackal
Archbishop Sebastian Vaniyapurackal
(born 29 Mar 1967)
Archbishop of Kalyan

Ad Limina - October 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Mulamkunnu, Eparchy of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar)
Ordained Bishop St. Dominic's, Cathedral, Kanjirapally, Eparchy of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar)

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archeparchy of Kalyan (Syro-Malabar).

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Mathew Vattackuzhy †
Bishop of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar)
Principal Consecrator:
George Cardinal Alencherry
Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Andrews Thazhath
Archbishop of Trichur (Syro-Malabar)
Bishop Mathew Arackal
Bishop of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

George Cardinal Alencherry (1997)
Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar)
Archbishop Joseph Powathil † (1972)
Archbishop of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar)
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q38263759

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 1 Sep 2017
opd/c1: CB, 4 Sep 2017
ob/c2+: CB, 23 Sep 2017
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 234, Number 19,604
ab: CB, 8 Dec 2023
ab: Bollettino, 28 Aug 2025
i: CB, 3 Oct 2025

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