Our Vicar

Fr. Dr. Thomas Jacob Manimala

Our vicar Fr. Dr. Thomas Jacob Manimala has come to Germany in 1997 for pursuing his doctoral studies. After obtaining the doctoral degree from the Martin Luther university, Halle-Wittenberg, he was engaged in research in the area of Christian-oriental studies. He got ordained as priest by the late lamented H. E. Abraham Mor Clemis Metropolitan of the Knanaya Archdiocese in 2000. He has done his theological education from the United Theological College Banglore and from St. Ephrem ecumenical research institute (SEERI) Kottayam. He was very passionate from the very beginning of his stay in Germany in organizing the Jacobite Orthodox believers and establishing churches and congregations in Germany and Europe. Now he serves as the vicar of St. Mary’s Jacobite Church Munich, St. Mary’s Jacobite Church Herne, Jacobite Congregation in Berlin, St. Mary’s Knanaya Church Italy, St. Mary’s Knanaya Church Dublin, St. James Knanaya Church Belfast and the Knanaya Congregation in Brussel. He also served as the founding vicar of St. Knai Thomman Knanaya Church Limerick, Ireland. He also occupied the office of the priest secretary of the Malankara Syriac Orthodox Diocese in Europe (except UK and Ireland).

Fr. Thomas Manimala belongs to the Syrian Knanaya Archdiocese and his mother parish is St. John’s Dayara Church Chingavanam, Kottayam. Now Achan resides in Ampfing, Bayern, Germany with his family.