Department of Institute of Oriental Canon Law

Faculty Details

Dr. Poothavelithara Varghese

9496941835

vpoothaveli@gmail.com

Name (Official)

Varghese

Poothavelithara Kurian

Date and Place of Birth

March 15, 1970

Mundar, Vaikom, Kerala

Address

Poothavelithara House, Thottakom, Thalayazham

Kottayom, Kerala – 686 607

Present Address

Research Centre, Dharmaram College, Bangalore, India

E-mail

vpoothaveli@gmail.com

Specialization

Canon Law

Doctoral Dissertation

The Presbyteral Council: An Institution of Hierarchical Communion and Sacerdotal Collegiality (A Study Based on Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium cc. 264-270 with a Particular Reference to the Presbyteral Council of the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archeparchy)

Present Status

Associate Professor (Extra Ordinary)

Degree

Specialization

University

Year

Ph.D.

Canon Law

Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome

2010

LOCL

Canon Law

Institute of Oriental Canon Law, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore

1999-2001

B.Th.

Theology

St. Joseph’s Pontifical Institute, Aluva

1992-1995

UG

Arts

Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram

1988-1991

B.Ph.

Philosophy

St. Joseph’s Pontifical Institute, Aluva

1988-1991

Offices

University/Institute

Year

Assistant Parish Priest

St. Mary’s Forane Church, Koratty

 St. Joseph’s Church, Meloor

 (Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly)

1996-1997

1997-1999

Parish Priest

St. Antony’s Church, Pothy (Kalayathumkunnu)

St. Joseph’s Church, Amalapuram

St. Mary’s Church, W. Cheranelloor

St. Rocky’s Church, Manickamangalam

(Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly)

1999

2001-2002

2003-2004

2011-2014

Program Coordinator to the Bishops

Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly

 

 

2010-2011

Judge

Metropolitan Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly

2002-2004 2014 ff.

Defender of the Bond

Metropolitan Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, Kerala

2010-2014

Notary

Administrative Tribunal, Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, Kerala

2010-2011

Judge

Eparchial Tribunal of the Eparchy of Mandya, Karnataka

2016-2018

Notary

Eparchial Tribunal of the Eparchy of Mandya, Karnataka

2018 ff.

Books:

Poothavelithara, Varghese. The Presbyteral Council: An Institution of Episcopal-Presbyteral Communion and Participation in the Eparchial Governance. Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications, 2020.

Commentary on CCEO:

Poothavelithara, Varghese. "Commentary on Canons 27-28," in A Practical Commentary to the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches,ed., John D. Faris and Jobe Abbass. Vol. 1, 117-137. Montréal: Librarie Wilson & Lafleur, 2019.

  1. Koluthara, Varghese & Varghese Poothavelithara, "The Diocesan/Eparchial Pastoral Council and the Parish Pastoral Council," Canonical Studies (October 2014) 79-117.
  2. Poothavelithara, Varghese, "Pious Wills and Pious Foundations in CIC and CCEO," Canonical Studies (October 2017) 44-70.
  3. Poothavelithara, Varghese, "Pious Wills and Pious Foundations in the Church: Common Canonical Norms," Iustitia 8/2 (December 2017) 229-258. 
  4. Poothavelithara, Varghese, "The Modification of the Territory of a Patriarchal Church - Canonical Provisions: Attempts of a Major Archiepiscopal Church and the Responses of the Apostolic See," Iustitia 9/2 (December 2018) 201-258.
  5. Poothavelithara, Varghese, "Encouraging and Developing the Participative Bodies for a Synodal Church," Asian Horizons 14/1 (March 2020) 181-208.

"Pious Dispositions and Pious Foundations in CIC and CCEO," A Paper Presented in the XXXI National Annual Conference of Canon Law Society of India, 16-20 October 2017, Pillar Salai, Madurai, Tamilnadu.

  1. In the CBCI Commission for Doctrine, Bishops-Theologians Colloquium on 'Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelization', 07-10 July 2014, NBCLC, Bangalore.
  2. In the Bishop Jonas Thaliath Endowment Lectures, 21-22 August 2014, DVK, Bangalore.
  3. In the Oriental Canon Law Society of India, Annual Conference, 26-27 August 2014, Chavara Hills, Kakkanad, Kerala, India.
  4. In the National Workshop on "The Impact of Orientalium Ecclesiarum on the Eastern Catholic Churches in India," 04-06 September 2014, DVK, Bangalore.
  5. In the National Conference on the "Challenges to the Family and to the Consecrated Life," 12-14 August 2015, DVK, Bangalore.
  6. In the Inter-Institute Seminar, on "The Role of the Laity in the Building up of a Domestic Church in CCEO and CIC," 20 November 2014, St. Peter's Pontifical Institute, Bangalore.
  7. In the Oriental Canon Law Society of India, Annual Conference, 22-23 July 2015, Thiruvalla, Kerala.
  8. In the Placid Podipara Endowment Lectures delivered by Prof. Pablo Gafaell on “Harmonising the Canons,” 29-31 July 2015, IOCL, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore.
  9. In the National Conference on the "Challenges to the Family and to the Consecrated Life," 12-14 August 2015, DVK, Bangalore.
  10. In the Canon Law Society of India, XXIX Annual Conference, "Consecrated Life in the Mission of the Church," 19-23 October 2015, Vailankanni, Tamil Nadu, India.
  11. In the Placid Podipara Endowment Lectures delivered by Chorbishop Prof. Dr. John D. Faris on “Canon Law and Ecumenism,” 06-09 September 2016, IOCL, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore.
  12. In the Canon Law Society of India, XXX Annual Conference, "Matrimonial Processes in the Light of the Recent Reforms," 17-21 October 2016, Old Goa, Goa, India.
  13. In the Placid Podipara Endowment Lectures delivered by Archbishop Kuriakose Bharaniklangara, on “Migration: Pastoral Challenges,” 06-08 September 2017, IOCL, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore, 
  14. In the Canon Law Society of India, XXXI Annual Conference, "The Temporal Goods of the Church," 16-20 October 2017, Pillar Salai, Madurai, Tamilnadu.
  15. In the Colloquium on Corpus Iuris Canonici 1917, 16 November 2017, St. Peter's Pontifical Institute, Bangalore, India.
  16. In the Oriental Canon Law Society of India, Annual Conference, 16-18 July 2018, Maria Rani Centre, Trivandrum, Kerala.
  17. In the Fr. Placid J. Podipara Endowment Lectures delivered by Rev. Dr. Jose Koonanmparambil CMF on "Challenges to the Institutes of Consecrate Life," 29-31 August 2018, IOCL, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore.
  18. In the Canon Law Society of India, XXXII Annual Conference, "Laity in the Mission of the Church," 22-26 October 2018, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bengaluru, India.
  19. In the Prof. A. Mathias Mundadan CMI Annual Lectures delivered by Rev. Dr. Antony Nariculam, on "Invigoration of the Church in India: Cardinal Parecattil Model," 31 October 2018, IOCL, DVK, Bangalore.
  20. In the Conference on Vocation and Mission of the Family: Reflections on Chavarul and AmorisLaetitia, 22-25 November 2018, DVK, Bangalore.
  21. In the Inter-Institute Seminar on "Penal Law and Pocso," 14 November 2018, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore.
  22. In the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches, XXIV Conference, "Fifty Years of Encounter Among the Eastern Churches: How Canon Law Assists in the Ecumenical Dialogue," 16-20 September 2019, Rome, Italy.
  23. In the Canon Law Society of India, XXXIII Annual Conference, "Involvement of the Religious in the Local Church," 14-18 October 2019, Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune.
  24. In the Fr. Placid J. Podipara Endowment Lectures delivered by Prof. Astrid Kaptijn, on "Lay People Are Just Non-Ordained," 27-28 November 2019, IOCL, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore.
  25. In the Inter-Institute Seminary on "Motu Proprios De Concordia Inter Codices and Vos Estis Lux Mundi," 21 November 2019, St. Peter's Pontifical Institute, Bangalore, India.

Postgraduate:

General Norms
Churches Sui Iuris and Rites
Hierarchy
Clerics
Lay Christian Faithful and Associations
Sacraments of Holy Orders and Anointing of the Sick
Temporal Goods
Administration of the Eparchial Curia
Sacred Canons
History of Codification
Orthodox Churches
Methodology
Latin I, II, III.

Sebin K Jose. Protection of Rights and Medicinal Character in the Procedure for Imposing Penalties in the Church: A Study Based on the Codes of Canon Law and Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela. 2019-2020.

Member

Canon Law Society of India

2015-

Member

Oriental Canon Law Society of India

2010-

Member

Society for the Law of Eastern Churches

2019-

Member

Kerala Theological Association

2016-

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