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Aguiar
Zenit
 * https://fr.zenit.org/2023/07/17/contexte-de-la-declaration-du-nouveau-cardinal-et-president-de-la-fondation-jmj-lisbonne/


 * Pillar
 * https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/the-rise-of-bishop-americo-aguiar

not full access
 * https://www.la-croix.com/Religion/JMJ-nont-pas-vocation-convertir-propos-Mgr-Aguiar-suscitent-polemique-2023-07-12-1201275156

date he gave an interview

snippet reported who and where?

outraged comments

Context reported

said

Dominique Rey
Dominique Marie Jean Rey (born 21 September 1952) is the Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon in the province of Marseille in southern France. He is considered one of the more conservative French bishops. He has been criticized for ordaining priests who have failed to qualify for the priesthood in their home countries, failing to supervise religious communities he has established, and for inadequate action against sex abusers in his diocese.

Dominique Rey, of the more traditionalist-charismatic branch of the French Church.
 * https://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350331bdc4.html?eng=y


 * for a long time "explosive and untouchable"

Biography
Dominique Rey was born in Saint-Étienne on 21 September 1952, the son of Joseph and Marie (Périer) Rey; his father was a typesetter. He was one of seven siblings, and the family was centered on the Catholic faith. He studied economics and earned a tax inspector's diploma, a degree in economics at the University of Lyon, and a degree in Fiscal Economics and Finance at the University of Clermont-Ferrand. He worked for government offices related to finance and economic analysis from 1976 to 1979. In 1977 he joined an Emmanuel Community prayer group in Paris and helped build that movement in its early years. He worked in Cameroon and Chad alongside the pentecostal missionary Jacques Giraud, whom he found attractive, but he had, he later said, "Catholic DNA, a sense of interiority and ritual". He then earned a licentiate in theology and a diploma in canon law at the Catholic Institute of Paris. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Paris on 23 June 1984.

A member of the Emmanuel Community, he was chaplain of the Collège Stanislas de Paris from 1984 to 1985; vicar of Sainte Marie des Batignolles parish from 1985 to 1986; superior of the chaplaincy for the Emmanuel Community center at Paray-le-Monial from 1986 to 1988; manager of priests, deacons, seminarians, and seminarians for the Emmanuel Community from 1988 to 1995. He served as curé of Sainte-Trinité parish in Paris from 1995 to 2000.

On 16 May 2000, Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon. He received his episcopal consecration on 17 September 2000 from Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger. He was the first member of the Emmanuel Community to become a bishop.

On 2 May 2009, he officiated at the marriage of Jean, Count of Paris, Orleanist pretender to the French throne, and Philomena de Tornos y Steinhart in the Cathedral of Senlis, conducting part of the service in Latin using the Tridentine Rite.

On 18 September 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named Rey to participate in the October 2012 Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization. He told the Synod that evangelization requires pastoral conversion, beginning with "personal sanctification" and deeper education to develop a new form of pastoral life that "embraces the charisms" of each constituent community and supports "the creation of places of welcome and of dialogue open to spiritual expectations". He led one of the Synod's discussion groups, which joined several others in endorsing the role of catechist for the entire Church, rather than leaving that office to a bishop's discretion.

He is the author of a book that argues that being a Catholic and a Freemason are incompatible.

In June 2013, he organized a four-day conference on liturgy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome focused on "liturgical reform", which attracted leading conservatives associated with the restoration of pre-Vatican II liturgies. He told an interviewer that Pope Benedict's attention to liturgy had "allow[ed] the riches of the old liturgy once again to be available freely", freeing his recent successor Pope Francis to "put his energies into making progress in other areas" while leaving liturgical reform to the dioceses and parishes.

In the fall of 2013, Rey established, in addition to a seminary program for a a diocesan order, the Missionaries of Mercy, which is specifically devoted to the pre-Vatican II liturgy, a seminary program for those attached to the celebration of the Tridentine Mass and open to seminarians sent from other dioceses.

On 6 February 2014, Pope Francis named him a consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Laity.

In August 2015, breaking with the policy of the Conference of French Bishops, he invited Marion Maréchal-Le Pen a prominent National Front (FN) member of the French parliament, to participate on a panel of politicians in his diocese. Rey defended the invitation: "The FN is a party like any other on the political chessboard. You have to be realistic, don't cover your eyes and ears!"

In July 2016, when Cardinal Robert Sarah advocated priests celebrate Mass ad orientem, facing away from the congregation as was done before the Second Vatican Council, Rey said he would advise the priests of his diocese to do so.

During the 2017 French presidential election, Rey advised voters to consider Christian principles, including fellowship with the poor, respect for the environment, respect for life, and an economy based on people's needs. He said that recognizing Europe's Christian roots requires welcoming immigrants.

More typically aligned with activists conservative "Rey... is adored by the religious right,... a supporter of La Manif pour tous, Catholic and political far right mass demonstrations against same-sex marriage legislation (and more), the Optimum “virilist” camps that promote the renewal of masculinity, or Courage sessions, close to conversion therapies."


 * l'évêque, qui organise en revanche des camps de soutien à la masculinité. "On est dans une société très maternisante, on a besoin de retrouver une identité masculine sinon on va avoir des bisounours ou des bourrins".
 * the bishop, who on the other hand organizes camps to support masculinity. “We are in a very motherizing society, we need to find a masculine identity otherwise we will have care bears or nags.”


 * embodies a uncompromising Catholicism in which the figure of the priest remains sacred.

Seminary record
Priest recruitment gets broad publicity: Guardisn interview reprints a Le Monde interview
 * defends external recruitment: Today young people select a seminary in the way they would a business school, via the internet. That approach mirrors what is happening in civil society, where people go in for networking and global exchanges.
 * https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2012/06/22/la-strategie-de-l-eveque-de-frejus-toulon-contre-le-declin-des-vocations-de-pretres_1723241_3224.html (subscription)
 * https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/07/france-bishop-boost-priest-recruitment

2017 PR for his numbers
 * Dominique Rey, a fait de son diocèse un carrefour de courants traditionnels ou charismatiques, en plus d'un havre pour jeunes prêtres.
 * diocèse is: le laboratoire d'un catholicisme remusclé.

"The third largest seminary in France in terms of numbers, the Castille welcomes many young people from new communities or foreigners from far away, even from Latin America. This openness is the trademark of the episcopate of Bishop Rey, who has been present in le Var for 22 years and is a great promoter of the New Evangelization. This openness has also given rise to questions in various Roman dicasteries."

"seminary – that of La Castille, between Toulon and Hyères – where some 70 seminarians are studying."

His bad seminary track record long coverage


 * https://fsspx.news/en/news/france-bishop-rey-clarifies-romes-sanctions-28243
 * His long problematic history

atest revision

Unprecedented suspension / should be easy to source https://www.liberation.fr/societe/religions/leveque-dominique-rey-sur-un-siege-ejectable-dans-le-diocese-du-var-20230213_EUBB6EM4UNBFZB7SG6MKMPXERU/?outputType=amp

The functioning of the seminary of La Castille questions the Holy See. According to Famille Chrétienne, Jean-Marc Aveline would have “noted several points raising questions in the training and discernment of candidates from the Castile seminary”. Among these 4 ordinants, only one followed the seminary in Castile after having begun his training in a seminary in Paraguay closed by decision of Rome.
 * https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2022/06/02/le-vatican-suspend-l-ordination-de-pretres-dans-le-diocese-de-frejus-toulon_6128725_3224.html
 * https://www.lavie.fr/christianisme/eglise/pas-dordinations-dans-le-diocese-de-frejus-toulon-une-decision-romaine-et-des-questions-82689.php
 * https://www.la-croix.com/Religion/Diocese-Frejus-Toulon-derives-locales-sanction-romaine-2022-06-13-1201219757

La Croix editorial
 * https://www.la-croix.com/Debats/Eglise-Toulon-devoir-dexemplarite-2022-06-13-1201219758

La Croix summary of seminary problem while waiting for coadjutor: "generously granting the status of “public association of the faithful” to young communities over which he was then reluctant to exercise control. . As bishop, he also welcomed many seminarians or priests who had broken ties with their traditionalist community, or whom other bishops had previously refused for the priesthood. Bishop Rey orders them, sometimes against the express advice of those close to him."


 * Third largest production of priests in France by 2022.

But damning statistic: "The number of local vocations has not increased significantly. In 2023, according to the diocesan directory, the diocese has more than 60% foreign priests."

Outsiders and new communities emphasis left tradition diocesan clergy feeling out of the action
 * and inability to manage, accept bad news/warnings
 * perhaps worst case: Father Antoine Coelho, former Legionary of Christ, incardinated in the diocese, ended up leaving Toulon in 2022 to start a family with a Spanish woman whom he claims to be “the incarnation of the Holy Spirit.” after Rey ignored delusional exorcisms and problematic confessions

Super sloppy ordinations: "In Castile, it was not uncommon for the number of ordinations to vary at the last minute. Bishop Rey ordained seminarians who had not received training in the diocese, whom he had met shortly before, some of whom did not even speak French. There were also discreet ordinations, alongside the “official” ones celebrated in June, as candidates for the priesthood arrived. “This created a Babelization of the diocese. There is no unity between the priests, except around the figure of Dominique Rey."

Solid account of Coelho, includes Rey suspension and specifically no exorcisms
 * https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/16831/french-bishop-suspends-priest-due-to-marry-holy-spirit-incarnation-

Ordinations suspended
Beginning in November 2020, at the urging of Curial officials, Jean-Marc Aveline, Archbishop of Marseille, whose ecclesiastical province includes the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, undertook an investigation of the diocese. As a result, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, ordered the suspension of ordinations in the Diocese, step of the rarest sort.

DELAY for a month
 * https://www.famillechretienne.fr/38858/article/frejus-toulon-pourquoi-mgr-rey-a-t-il-tarde-a-annoncer-la-suspension-des

Rey announced the suspension on 2 June 2022. Though the Vatican offered no comment and Rey's announcement said only REVERSE THESE, but media reports pointed to the troubled record of the diocese seminarians and management. MULTIPLE CITATIONS

Rey responses
Late June he writes to his diocese of issues/Rome's concerns
 * recruit of candidates, multiple training paths
 * multiple communities and integration
 * traditionalist place in diocese and seminary

he admits problems with discernment when welcoming new communities

Actions:
 * a moratorium on welcoming communities, an inventory of the communities of the diocese, a strengthening of the role of the priestly council for the reception of a new priest in the diocese or of incardination” as well as a strengthening of the role of the rector of the seminary.

unclear how well executed

and personnel changes, rxcardinations (sinking ship)

all above

Late June vie chrétienne:


 * https://www.famillechretienne.fr/38585/article/toulon-mgr-rey-reconnait-des-erreurs-et-annonce-de-premieres-mesures

Visitation and coadjutor
An apostolic visitation of the diocese, ordered by the Dicastery for Bishops was announced on 7 February 2023, and the investigators arrived on 13 February: Antoine Hérouard, Archbishop of Dijon, assisted by Joël Mercier, secretary of the Dicastery for the Clergy, and a Curial official since 2002.

The visit!!!

ends on 10 March, 110 interviews, 600 written submissions
 * concern about welcoming communities w questionable pasts, and mission to convert Muslims

all above

On 21 November 2023, Pope Francis named Bishop François Touvet to serve as coadjutor bishop of Fréjus-Toulon and assigned him much of the authority Rey would normally have continued to exercise even when assisted by a coadjutor: "the special powers of the diocesan government in the areas of administration, management of the clergy, training of seminarians and priests, support of institutes of consecrated life, societies of apostolic life, and associations of the faithful". Rey welcomed him and said he was delighted Pope Francis had accepted his proposal that a coadjutor be appointed. Rey had a private audience with Pope Francis on 22 December.

Within the Bishop's Conference of France Rey was a member of the episcopal finance commission.l from 2017 to 2023.

Distinctions

 * Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite, France


 * Prelate Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Lazarus (statuted 1910) (2017).

Designation as Pontifical and Catholic
Altered statutes several times over the years without Vatican approval

In 2007, Juan Luis Cipriani, after almost a decade as Archbishop of Lima, sought to assert the customary right of the local ordinary to be seated ex officio as chancellor.

not great source

and wider implications: The PUCP has been involved in a conflict with its ex offico chancellor, Cipriano since 2007 over who has the right to appoint the rector, supervision of its teaching and learning content and control of its not inconsiderable assets."

"Cipriani questioned the way the university manages the inheritance and has insisted on more transparency and accountability to the archdiocese." and

On October 19, 2011, the apostolic nunciature in Perú announced that he would be apostolic visitor to intervene in the dispute between the Pontifical Catholic University of Perú (PUCP) and the archbishopric of Lima.

On 19 October 2011, the apostolic nunciature in Peru announced that he would undertake an apostolic visitation to intervene in the dispute between the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop of Lima. LOTS MORE IN THIS REF

On 19 October 2011, Cardinal Péter Erdő, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest was named to conduct an apostolic visitation of the university.

In December he tried to broker a settlement between the university's rector Rubio and Cipriani without success.

Erdő asked the PUCP to implement the norms by Easter 2012 (8 April).

Without compliance, Vatican intervenes to support Cipriani

Under canon law, the title "pontifical" title allows a Catholic university to award certain ecclesiastical degrees. ??? and can't be pontifical if not Catholic

The attorney for the Archdiocese of Lima, Natale Amprimo,

issued a press statement

or

told an interviewer

stating that the Archdiocese may decide to file a lawsuit against the university if they do not remove catholic and pontifical ??? from its name soon.

UNCLEAR DIFF ISSUE Amprimo cited article 83 of the P.U.C.P. University Act, i.e. "goods coming from donations, legacies and bequests are subject to the regime established by the donor".

Rubio and Bertone discuss results of visitation in the Vatican in February 2012. Followed by Rubio has sent the cardinal two letters asserting "the impossibility of enacting what was requested" and stating that the university would not modify its statutes unless the Archdiocese of Lima "renounced control" over the university's assets, the Vatican said.

On 11 July 2012, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State of the Holy See, withdrew the titles of "Pontifical" and "Catholic" from the university, citing disagreements with the current governing body. Rubio called it "not the best example of tolerance and respect".

The communique said that since 1967, the university's governing body repeatedly and "unilaterally modified its statutes with serious prejudice to the interests of the church."

Beginning in 1990, the Vatican said, it repeatedly asked the university to rewrite its statutes in accordance with the principles outlined in "Ex Corde Ecclesiae," the 1990 apostolic constitution on guaranteeing the identity and mission of Catholic colleges. The Vatican said the university had a "legal obligation" to adopt the norms prescribed by the Vatican while Rubio.

On 22 July 2012, the rector of the university, Marcial Rubio, released a press statement called the dispute "regrettable" and said the PUCP would continue to use the disputed terms in its official name as determined by its governing body.

Rubio also asserted that the university is governed by the civil laws of Peru, not by ecclesiastical canon law.

In a nutshell:

For Natale Amprimo, lawyer to the archbishop of Lima, the issue is simple: "La Católica belongs to the Catholic church. The professors must fall into line with the rules of the Holy See."

Rubio said: "We think of the university as a group of people, not the property of anyone.

"We're defending freedom of conscience, a plural education and freedom of speech. I think our archbishop thinks we shouldn't be that free." source guardian

In 2014 Pope Francis created a commission to find a "final, consensual solution" between the Vatican and the university, comprising Cardinals Erdo, Gérald Lacroix, Archbishop of Quebec, and Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile. ANDANDAND

New statutes that were negotiated by the rector's office and the Holy See were approved "almost unanimous approval" after 14 months of discussion in October 2016, from the PUCP's University Assembly. They notify the Vatican.

The solution re,oved Cipriani from any influence over the University,

In 2016, the Vatican restored the lost titles and determined that the archbishop of Lima would not assume the position of Chancellor of the university.

Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi was named to a five-year term as chancellor on 15 November 2016.

Article 5 includes:

"Each Bishop has a responsibility to promote the welfare of the Catholic Universities in his diocese and has the right and duty to watch over the preservation and strengthening of their Catholic character. If problems should arise conceming this Catholic character, the local Bishop is to take the initiatives necessary to resolve the matter, working with the competent university authorities in accordance with established procedures(52) and, if necessary, with the help of the Holy See."

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Cabo
By contrast, author Jesús María López Sotillo wrote on Religión Digital that Cobo knows Madrid far better than most of his predecessors, that Cardinal Antonio María Rouco Varela led the archdiocese for twenty years from 1994 to 2014, and that Cobo's age means "he has time to try to put into practice ... whatever idea he has of what it means to be a bishop today".

and Parish Alfonso Liguria is working class

José Cobo Cano (born 20 September 1965) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been serving as the archbishop of Madrid since his installation on 8 July 2023. He was an auxiliary bishop of that archdiocese from 2017 to 2023.

Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 30 September 2023.

Early life
José Cobo was born on 20 September 1965 in the municipality of Sabiote, Jaén, Andalusia, where he was baptized in the Iglesia de San Pedro (Sabiote). At 7 years old he went with his parents, Agustín and Pauli, to Madrid.

He earned a licentiate degree in civil law from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1988. The same year, he entered both the Madrid Conciliary Seminary and the San Damaso Ecclesiastical University, where he completed his ecclesiastical studies. He pursued moral science at the Comillas Pontifical University from 1994 to 1996.

Priest
Cobo was ordained a priest of the archdiocese of Madrid on 23 April 1994 by Cardinal Ángel Suquía Goicoechea, Archbishop of Madrid.

He was deputy at Hermandades del Trabajo de Madrid, a Catholic evangelist and social work organization from 1994 to 1996. He was a vicar from 1995 yo 2000 and archpriest in 2000 at San Leopold parish. From 2000 to 2015, he was the parish priest of St. Alfonso María de Ligorio. He served as a member of the Presbyteral Council, a group of priests that advises the archbishop from 2000 to 2012 and again from 2015 to 2017. In 2001, he was nominated as archpriest of Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Campamento and served until 2015. He was a permanent member in the II Diocesan Synod of Madrid, a meeting focused on legislative matters, from 2002 to 2005. He episcopal vicar of the II Northeast vicariate from 2015 to 2017. He was a lecturer at Escuela de Agentes de Pastoral de Madrid from 1996 to 2000 and Centro de Estudios Sociales de Cáritas Diocesana de Madrid from 2000 to 2012.

Auxiliary bishop
On 29 December 2017, Pope Francis named Cobo one of three new auxiliary bishops of Madrid and titular bishop of Baeza. He received his episcopal consecration on 17 February 2018.

He chose as his episcopal motto In misericordia Tua, confidere et servire ("In Your mercy, trust and serve") to reflect his belief that entrusting all to God and serving are the core principles of his life. He says that these traits define his strengths and underscore his contributions to the Church and community.

Cobo wanted his ecclesiastical coat of arms to symbolize four aspects of his personal and priestly life: the Cross with the Five Holy Wounds, a representation of his faith; a bell, reflecting his role in guiding the people of God through various situations; a wash-basin, reflecting his servitude to others; and a broken wall with a star in the background, referencing the discovery of the Virgin of Almudena and his home town's patron saint, the Virgin of the Star.

While auxiliary bishop, he worked for the Spanish Episcopal Conference, responsible for the Prison Pastoral Care Department from 2018 to 2021 and a member of the Migration Department since 2019 and of the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral and Human Promotion since 2020.

In November 2018, a teacher at an Opus Dei school in Bilbao was discovered to have sexually abused a child from 2008 to 2010. Following the case's revelation, Cobo talked with the victim's priest, subsequently reporting the incident to the school. The school trusted his account and indicated plans to relocate the teacher abroad; Cobo strongly objected to and criticized this decision, stating that school officials lacked compassion toward the victim or their parents. Cobo also called the bishop of Bilbao's handling of the situation "shameful". The teacher was ultimately sentenced to 11 years in prison. This high-profile case led to a nationwide meeting addressing sexual abuse cases within the Catholic Church, in which Cobo participated.

Archbishop
On 12 June 2023, Pope Francis named Cobo archbishop of Madrid, replacing Carlos Osoro Sierra. He was installed there on 8 July 2023 in the Cathedral of Santa María de Vitoria. On 29 June 2023, Pope Francis, Pope Francis gave him his pallium, the ecclesiastical vestment that represents his role as a metropolitan. He was the first archbishop of Madrid not already an archbishop since Madrid became an archdiocese in 1964. He had not been included on the list of candidates (terna) proposed by the apostolic nuncio to Spain for the pope's consideration. Observers attributed his appointment to his work on social issues and his alignment with the the pope's progressive positions.

As archbishop, he was made member of the Executive Commission and the Permanent Commission of the Spanish Episcopal Conference in July 2023. That same month, Pope Francis announced plans to make him a cardinal at a papal consistory scheduled for 30 September. At that consistory he was made cardinal priest of Santa Maria in Monserrato degli Spagnoli.

In an interview at World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Cobo criticized the church as being manipulated by "ideological interests" and as an instrument to win votes and reaffirm political positions. He told an interviewer that he would not officiate at a same-sex marriage and comparing the concept of sacramental same-sex marriage to celebrating the Eucharist with Coca-Cola.

Mulakkal
Franco Mulakkal is an Indian prelate of the Latin Catholic Church. He was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalandhar from 2013 to 2023 and before that an auxiliary bishop of Delhi from 2009 to 2013.

In September 2018 a nun accused him of multiple rapes. He was acquitted at trial in January 2022, though an appeal of that verdict continues. He was relieved of his duties as bishop in September 2018 while under investigation and he remained in that status until, at the request of the Holy See, he offered his resignation as bishop of Jalandhar and it was accepted in June 2023.

Early years and career
Franco Mulakkal was born in Mattam, Thrissur, Kerala, India, on 25 March 1964. His father was a schoolmaster. He attended St. Francis Boy's School in Mattam from 1970 to 1979 and the minor seminary of St. Mary's in Thrissur from 1979 to 1982. He studied philosophy and theology at the major inter-diocesan seminary of St. Charles in Nagpur, in the Archdiocese of Bombay. He also has a bachelor's degree in education from Annamalai University in Tamil Nadu, as well as master's degrees in both English literature and sociology from Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar.

He was ordained a priest at St. Thomas Forane Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Mattom, Thrissur, Kerala, on 21 April 1990 by Symphorian Keeprath, Bishop Emeritus of that diocese, having chosen to be a priest of the Diocese of Jalandhar out of admiration for Keeprath.

He worked as parish vicar in Dhariwal in 1990-1991; parish priest in St. Joseph's parish in Kahnuwan from 1991 to 1996; and taught at the St. John Vianney Minor Seminary, Amritsar, in 1996-1997. He earned a degree in moral theology, studying in Rome at the Alfonsianum, part of the Pontifical Lateran University, from 1997 to 2001, with a dissertation: "A Theological Investigation into the Moral Teachings of Guru Nanak from a Catholic perspective". He was professor of moral theology at Holy Trinity Regional Seminary in Jalandhar and dean of the Faculty of Theology there from 2001 to 2008. He was international treasurer of the Apostolic Union of the Clergy, based in Rome, for the year 2008-2009 and became a consultor of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

He founded the Charismatic Apostolate of the Diocese of Jalandhar in 2001 and served as its director until 2009. He was director of the Diocesan Pastoral Center from 2002 to 2006; editor of the diocesan magazine Sada Zamana from 2006 to 2009; national president of the Apostolic Union of the Clergy from 2003 to 2007; and international councillor of the Apostolic Union of the Clergy from 2004 to 2007. He also became public relations manager for the Jalandhar district.

Bishop
Pope Benedict XVI appointed him auxiliary bishop of the Latin rite Archdiocese of Delhi and titular bishop of Chullu on 17 January 2009. He received his episcopal consecration on 21 February 2009 from Archbishop Vincent Concessao, Archbishop of Delhi, with Archbishop Andrews Thazhath, Syro-Malabar Archbishop of Trichur, and Anil Joseph Thomas Couto, Bishop of Jalandhar, as co-consecrators. He chose as his episcopal motto "So that in Everything God may be Glorified".

Pope Francis named him bishop of the Latin rite Diocese of Jalandhar in the Indian state of Punjab on 13 June 2013. He was installed as bishop there in a ceremony held at Trinity College in Jalandhar on 4 August 2013. He became secretary of the Regional Bishops Conference of North India.

Sexual assault charges and acquittal
In June 2018, a nun accused the Mulakkal of raping her repeatedly between 2014 and 2016 during his visits to St. Francis Mission Home in Kuravilangad, Kottayam, Kerala. She filed a complaint with the Kerala Police. Press reports detailed complaints the nun had first sent to Church authorities beginning in January 2017 without response. Mulakkal said his accuser was retaliating against him for taking disciplinary action against her.

In September 2018, when summoned to Kerala to be questioned by police investigators, he appointed an administrator to manage the diocese in his absence. On 16 September he asked Pope Francis to relieve him of his duties as bishop, and the Pope responded on 20 September, appointing Bishop Agnelo Gracias, a retired auxiliary bishop of Bombay, as the temporary administrator of Jalandhar diocese.

On 21 September 2018, the Kerala police arrested him and he was formally charged on 9 April 2019.

The trial began in November 2019. and concluded xxx after xxx witnesses
 * ADD

Mulakkal was acquitted on all charges on 14 January 2022. The judge stated that the nun's evidence contained "exaggerations and embellishments" and that "when it is not feasible to separate truth from falsehood ... the only available course is to discard the evidence in toto". It also discredited her veracity for inconsistencies between several accounts she had given. The Kerala High Court agreed to accept appeals of that verdict from the accuser and the prosecution on 5 April 2022.

Bishop emeritus
Mulakkal was never allowed to assume his authority as bishop once more. A year later, on 8 February 2023, he met privately with Pope Francis.

On 1 June 2023, Pope Francis accepted his resignation. The Apostolic Nunciature to India explained that Mulakkal had been asked to resign for the good of the diocese, to clear the way for the appointment of a new bishop. The Nunciature said that the Holy See respected both Mulakkal's acquittal and the fact that the Kerala High Court had accepted an appeal of that decision.

Ravel
compared to Charlie Hebdo shooting in January 2015

Ravel called abortion a "weapon of mass destruction" and called for the return of the abortion debate in French society in the Armed Forces monthly magazine in February 2015. In response, the French Defence Minister asked the Diocese's magazine to stop displaying the Army's logo on the cover so as to distance the Army from its content.

Text of his article in EGMIL, the monthly journal of the military chaplaincy :


 * Refs