C. J. Varkey, Kuzhikulam

Who is C. J. Varkey, Kuzhikulam?

Mgr. C. J. Varkey, Kuzhikulam, also popularly known as "Varkeyachan", was an Indian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate in 1962. At present the congregation has 800 professed sisters working in one hundred communities in India, United States, Germany and Italy, engaged with different apostolic activities like teaching, nursing, orphanage, leprosy center, old age homes, family apostolate, social work, pastoral care, prayer and counselling. He was one of the most admired figures in the Kerala Church and a leader of the charismatic renewal movement in the state.