Mar George Alencherry has been named Cardinal
Mar George Alencherry Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church has been named Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI.
The announcement was made simultaenously in Vatican and at Kakkanad St Thomas Mount.
Alencherry was born in Thuruthy, Changanacherry was ordained a priest on 19 November 1972. He studied at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Seminary of St Joseph in Alwaye and earned a doctorate at the Institut Catholique de Paris, where he specialised in catechesis.
Rev Alencherry was ordained a Bishop on May 29 last year following the passing away of Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil.
