Sebastian Mankuzhikary

Sebastian Mankuzhikary
	Eparch of Thamarassery
Native name	സെബാസ്റ്റ്യൻ മങ്കുഴിക്കരി
Church	Syro-Malabar Church
Diocese	Eparchy of Thamarassery
In office	28 April 1986 – 11 June 1994
Predecessor	Eparchy erected
Successor	Jacob Thoomkuzhy
Previous posts	Titular Eparch of Arethusa dei Siri (1969-1986); Auxiliary Eparch of Ernakulam (1969-1986)
Orders
Ordination	12 March 1955
Consecration	6 January 1970; by Joseph Parecattil
Personal details
Born	9 March 1929; Thanneermukkom, Travancore, British Empire
Died	11 June 1994 (aged 65)

Mar Sebastian Mankuzhikary (2 March 1929 – 11 June 1994) was the first bishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Thamarassery (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church) in Kerala, India.

Born in Thanneermukkom, Kerala, he was educated at seminaries in India and ordained a priest on 12 March 1955. He subsequently studied philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome where he completed his doctoral dissertation in 1959, Metaphysical Vision of Tagore (published posthumously in 2000, ed. Joseph Therattil), a study on the writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. After post-doctoral work at the Catholic University of Louvain and teaching at the St. Joseph's Pontifical Seminary in Kerala, he was ordained auxiliary bishop of Ernakulam and titular bishop of Arethusa dei Siriin on 15 November 1969 and became the first holder of the bishopric of Thamarassery in 1986.

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