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CHRONOLOGY

1981

1981 January
Knanaya Catholics who migrated to Chicago and nearby areas from the Diocese of Kottayam gath-
ered and sent requests to the Bishop of Kottayam, Mar Kuriakose Kunnassery for a priest from
Kottayam diocese to serve the Knanaya Catholics in America.

1981 March 18
Mar Kuriakose Kunnacherry wrote to His Eminence John Cardinal Cody, Archbishop of Chicago
asking his help to make provisions for appointing a priest for the Knanaya Catholic Ministry in
Chicago.

1981 April 2
Letter from the Very Rev. John R. Keating, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Chicago to Mar
Kuriakose Kunnacherry asking for the name of a priest to be sent to Chicago.
1981 May 9
Letter from Bishop Mar Kuriakose Kunnacherry proposing the name of Fr. Jacob Chollampel and
requesting to appoint him also as a part-time associate pastor in a parish of the Archdiocese.

1982

1982 February 16
Kottayam Bishop received a letter from the Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Chicago, Rev. John
R. Keating stating: "it is our judgment that the creation of such a special ministry would not be appro-
priate at the present time."

1982 (Date unknown)
Get-together of the Knanaya Catholics in Chicago on fortnight on Saturdays after the 5:30 P.M.
Mass at the parish hall of St. Alphonsus Church. Holy Mass in the Syro-Malabar Rite was arranged in
the basement chapel of St. Alphonsus Church whenever a Syro-Malabar priest was available.

1982 November 3
Bishop Mar Kuriakose Kunnacherry's letter to the then new Archbishop of Chicago Most Rev.
Joseph L. Bernardin to reconsider the request for starting a new Knanaya Catholic Ministry in
Chicago.

1983

1983 September 7
Rev. Richard J. Feller, the pastor of Church of St. Ita wrote to the Chancellor of the Archdiocese
of Chicago expressing his willingness to provide residence for Fr. Jacob Chollampel in his parish.

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