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Curia OCD
Roma (15-01-2009).- From 1979 the Malabar Province of southern India has been present in the northern State of the Punjab. At the foot of the Himalayas the Province has been active in missionary work. It is an area where there are few catholics. Many of our missionaries and young carmelite students have gone there from the abundant vocational fields of Kerala. Our Hoshiarpur mission has no less than 21 houses or missionary stations.
In 2004 the General Definitory agreed that the Hoshiarpur Regional Vicarite should have the status of a Commissariate ad experimentum for six years. Meanwhile the missionary work has been crowned with local vocations. Thus on January 3, 2009 the bishop of Jalandhar ordained the first carmelite priest from this northern indian State. He is Fr. Prem Paramjit. The following day, January 4 he celebrated the eucharist in the church of Christ the King, Ramdas. The Delhi Commissariate is endeavouring to form religious for its houses of formation.
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