SD Changanassery

Cause

13th

General Synaxis

Giving approval for the Cause

21

August 2009

Request of the Petitioner, Superior General Mother Smitha Vempilly to Archdiocese for the initiation of the Cause

22

August 2009

Appointment of the Postulator by the Superior General

24

August 2009

Letter of the Postulator to the Archbishop

25

August 2009

Approval of the Appointment Letter to the Superior General

25

August 2009

Initiation of the Cause of the Servant of God Varghese Payapilly

28

January 2010

Opinion of the Synod to initiate the Cause

01

February 2010

Petition to Holy See for Nihil Obstat

20

August 2010

Nihil Obstat from the Holy See

23

February 2011

Exhumation, Identification and Transfer of the Mortal Remains of the Servant of God Fr. Varghese Payapilly

12

November 2012

Closing ceremony of the Diocesan Enquiry by Major Arch Bishop Mar George Cardinal Alencherry

16

November 2012

Submit the boxes in the Nunciature by the Postulator

15

January 2013

The General Council gave letter to Msgr. Paul Pallath to be appointed as the Roman Postlator

13

February 2013

Mandate of the Roman Postulator for Msgr. Paul Pallath

13

February 2013

The boxes of the Cause reached in Rome

02

March 2013

Registration of the boxes in the Office

24

April 2013

Open the boxes in Rome

26

August 2013

Application for the Vice Postulator from the Petitioner

23

September 2013

Appointment of Sr. Roseline Elavanal S.D. as the Vice Postulator by Msgr. Paul Pallath

04

October 2013

The General Council gave letter to Msgr. Paul Pallath to change Roman Postulator as Sr. Grace Koovayil S.D. because Msgr. Pallath elavated as the Relater of the Cause of Saints.

20

November 2013

Mandate of the Roman Postulator for Sr. Grace Koovayil S.D.

10

January 2014

We got the Validity Certificate of the Diocesan Inquiry conducted in the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly for the Cause of the Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God Fr. Varghese Payapilly.

31

March 2014

Appointed Msgr. Paul Pallath as the Relater of our Cause of the Servant of God Fr. Varghese Payapilly.

17

May 2016

Historical Commission accepted the Position

24

October 2017

Theological Consulters accepted the Position

10

April 2018

Cardinals accepted the Cause

14

April 2018

Venerable by Pope Francis

26

April 2018

Declaration of the elevation of the Servant of God Varghese Payapilly as Venerable in St. John Nepumsian’s Church, Konthuruthy by Major Arch Bishop Mar George Cardinal Alencherry.