Today the Holy Father:

- granted the confirmation requested of him in accordance with canon 153
of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches by Bishop George Alencherry,
of Thuckalay of the Syro-Malabars, canonically elected as major archbishop
of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars, India by the
Synod of Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church meeting in Mount Saint Thomas,
Kakkanad-Kochi, in Kerala, India on 24 May. Bishop Alencherry was born in
Thuruthy, India in 1945, was ordained a priest in 1972, and consecrated a
bishop in 1997.