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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Ambrose Pitchaimuthu, of the clergy of Chingleput, until now national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in India, as bishop of the diocese of Vellore, India.
Msgr. Ambrose Pitchaimuthu was born on 3 May 1966 in Cheyyur in Tamil Nadu. He studied philosophy and theology at Sacred Heart Seminary in Chennai, and was awarded a licentiate in philosophy from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
He was ordained a priest on 25 March 1993 for the metropolitan archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore, and in 2002, he was incardinated in the new diocese of Chingleput.
He has held the following offices: deputy parish priest of the Santhome Cathedral in Chennai (1993-1994), deputy parish priest of Saint Francis Xavier in Pallavaram (1994-1995), professor and vice rector of Sacred Heart Seminary in Chennai (2001-2008), member of the College of Consultors of Chingleput and the Council for Formation (2002-2017), vicar general of Chingleput (2008-2015), parish priest of Saint Joseph’s Cathedral in Chingleput (2008-2013), vicar forane of the Saint Joseph Deanery in Chingleput (2009-2012), parish priest of Sacred Heart in Oragadam Village (2013-2015), parish priest of Saint Mary Help of Christians in Padappai and superintendent of Catholic Schools (2015-2017), parish priest of Saint Francis Xavier in Pallavaram (2017-2018). Since 2018 he has been national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in India, and executive secretary of the Commission for Proclamation of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India. (Agenzia Fides, 9/11/2024)
