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THE ARCHEPARCHY OF KOTTAYAM
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CONSECRATED LIFE FOR WOMEN CONGREGATIONS SERVING IN THE DIOCESE:
This Congregation was started by Msgr Mathew Makil during the time of Bishop Charles Levigne, SJ. This eparchial congregation has been doing excellent service especially in the field of education. Now it has 641 members and 85 convents. They have expanded their sphere of apostolate into health-care and ministry for the poor and destitute. They have members working in government hospitals in India and in the dioceses of Khandwa, Munich, Lugano, Tanzania, Los Angeles etc.
This eparchial congregation was started by Rev. Fr Thomas Poothathil during the time of Bishop Mar Alexander Chulaparambil. Distributed in 49 convents they have 350 members. Their apostolate is in education, as well as in the ministry for the sick, the poor and the destitute. They have ministries in the North Indian Syro-Mala1'>ar Eparchies of Rajkot, Ujain and also in Italy, Germany and Switzerland.
Instituted in 1961 by Bishop Mar Thomas Tharayil, this Secular Institute now has 103 members and 12 houses. They work at Caritas Hospital, Thellakom; Mercy hospital, Madampam and Payyavoor; Caritas Polytechnic for girls, Peroor; old age homes in Madampam, Peroor and Germany. They also run a girls' orphanage at Payyavoor. They are also helping parish ministry in various places. Besides the above five Eparchial institutes, four other religious communities work in this eparchy. They are: Congregation of Vallombrosan Benedictines, Little Daughters of St John Gualbert, Daughters of the Charity of the Most Precious Blood, and Sisters of Our Lady of Providence. LITTLE DAUGHTERS OF ST.JOHN GUALBERT Little Daughters of St John Gualbert was started in Pescia in 1974 by Abbot Guiseppe Zambemardi. The eparchy of Kottayam gave all possible cooperation to this congregation from 1980. Now the congregation has a novitiate and petulancy house in the eparchy. They have 88 sisters from this eparchy, of whom 16 are working in the eparchy, the rest are in Italy. DAUGHTERS OF THE CHARITY OF THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD Daughters of the Charity of the Most Precious Blood: with headquarters in Rome, came to this eparchy in 1987. They have their novitiate house at Kezhoor and 4 other houses in this eparchy. Thirty nine of them are working in the eparchy. Sisters of Our Lady of Providence Sisters of Our Lady of Providence: They have a convent in the parish at Vakathanam. Six sisters residing there recruit young girls to their congregation and do pastoral ministry in the parish.
MADNAHA
An Institute for Theological Training of sisters belonging to all congregations in the diocese.
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