Cyriac Pullapilly
historian
Cyriac K. Pullapilly (June 15, 1932 – December 17, 2017) was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a former priest of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and a professor of history at Saint Mary's College, Indiana.
Biography
Cyriac Pullapilly was an only child, born in what is now Kerala, India, on June 15, 1932. Raised by his mother, Anna, he was educated at St. Thomas College and St. Joseph's Pontifical Seminary before becoming an ordained priest in the Eastern Rite Syro-Malabar Catholic Church on March 16, 1958. According to some source, the ordination was the culmination of his mother's ambitions for him, although others say that his parents were initially reluctant for him to enter the church. While attending the seminary, he wrote for a missionary publication called Home Field. He was also part of the anti-communist movement in his college and wrote various publications critical of the communist government, which controlled the legislature in his state.
Pullapilly was awarded his PhD from the University of Chicago and both he and his wife emigrated to the United States, raising their children in South Bend, Indiana. The filmmaker Gita Pullapilly is his daughter.
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