Cyriac Pullapilly

Cyriac K. Pullapilly (June 15, 1932 – December 17, 2017) was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a former priest of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and a professor of history at Saint Mary's College, Indiana.

Biography Cyriac Pullapilly was an only child, although others say that his parents were initially reluctant for him to enter the church.

Pullapilly was awarded his PhD from the University of Chicago and both he and his wife emigrated to the United States, raising their children in South Bend, Indiana. The filmmaker Gita Pullapilly is his daughter.

In 1983, he founded the Semester Around the World Program, where University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College, Indiana, students travelled the world and studied in India.

Based upon his founding of the Semester Around the World program, Pullapilly received the Spes Unica Award from Saint Mary's College for his outstanding service to the College in 2007.

Pullapilly ended his academic career as an emeritus professor of history at Saint Mary's. He died on December 17, 2017.

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