Michael Arattukulam

Michael Arattukulam (17 April 1910 – 20 March 1995) was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alleppey and an advocate of the Rotae Romanae.

Career The Roman Catholic Diocese of Alleppey belongs to the Latin rite and was created on 19 June 1952 by the division of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cochin. Arattukulam was consecrated as the Bishop of Alleppey on 7 December 1952. Arattukulam participated in the four sessions in the Second Ecumenical Council of Vatican held at St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, from 1962 to 1965.

He was the first bishop to publicly criticize the "Indianization" of the Catholic Church's liturgy, although some Catholic groups protested against the use of Hindu elements in the Mass.

Arattukulam identified the sanctity of Fernanda Riva's life and asked that her Cause for Canonisation be introduced.

Foundations St. Michael's College, Cherthala Alleppey Diocesan Social Welfare Society St. Joseph's College for Women Alappuzha Credit Union Catholic Teacher's Guild of Diocese of Alleppey Corporate Management of Schools (Diocese of Alleppey) Suviseshabhavan, Catechetical Commission, Diocese of Alleppey

Works Latin Catholics of Kerala A study of the Inter Rites and Inter-Rite Conflicts in the Varapoly Seminary St. Francis Xavier on the Malabar Coast (1968)