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✨About St.Joseph's Church, Ambattur✨
In the year 1962, Rev.Fr. Philip Manathra founded this Church in a Small hut as a substation of Avadi Parish and it was located near Ambattur Railway station Kalyanapuram. The late Arch Bishop Rev. DR.R.Arulappa, erected it as independent parish at Krishnapuram in the year 1972 and built a church which is the present community hall.
Rev Fr. James Panaparampil was the first parish priest. Rev Fr. V.M Thomas Vattakottayil (1975) developed the parish. He was followed by Rev. Fr.G.M.Joseph(1982).
Then in the year 1985, Rev.Fr. P.J. Lawrence Raj took over as parish priest and constructed the school on 1986 and the new church in the year 1993.
Then Rev Fr. J. Maria Amalaraj(1994), Rev.
Fr. Jebamalai D(1999) and Rev. Fr. S.
Kanikairaj(2000) had worked in this parish as Parish Priests. Rev Fr. P.K. Mathew was working as Parish Priest from the year 2007 onwards.
After Rev Fr. P.K Mathew, Rev. Fr.Divyanathan and Fr. Pascal took the charge as Parish Priests in 2014 and 2015. Then, Rev Fr. Andrew Dominic took over as Parish priest from May 2016 and renovated the Church on account of Silver Jubilee celebration and the opening ceremony was conducted on 22nd July 2018 by our Rev Bishop George Antonysamy. Consistently, Renovation of St. Joseph's School, Matha Kebi, Eucharistic chapel, Bell tower, Dispensary was done by Rev Fr. Andrew Dominic. Finally, he inaugurated Sleeping St. JOSEPH's Statue on 16th June 2021.
✨ Now, Rev. Fr. Jacob is working as current Parish Priest from July 2021 ✨
26 авг 2024