Bishop Joseph Kalathiparambil was born on 6 October 1952 in Vaduthala, a suburb of the city of
Cochin in
Kerala,
India. Bishop Joseph was ordained a priest on 13 March 1978 by Archbishop Joseph Kelanthara of the Verapoly Archdiocese. He is specialized in Canon Law from Rome and was appointed Vice Rector of Collegio San Paolo in Rome from 1984 to 1989. Later he moved back to Kerala and was appointed Chancellor of the
Archdiocese of Verapoly on 15 August 1989. He served as the Chancellor for the
Archdiocese from 1989 to 1996. He was granted the title of Chaplain of His Holiness,
Monsignor, in 1989 by
Pope John Paul II. On 6 November 1996, he was made the Vicar General of Archdiocese of Verapoly. He was advanced to the papal Prelacy of Honour on 31 January 2001. He served as the
Vicar-General of the Archdiocese from 1996 to 2002. He was nominated Bishop of Calicut on 19 April 2002 and was consecrated on 19 May 2002. He served as the Bishop of
Calicut for almost 9 years and was then appointed by
Pope Benedict XVI as the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants on 22 February 2011. On 5 March, he was also appointed as a Member of the
Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Dr. Joseph Kalathiparambil was appointed as the Archbishop of Verapoly by
Pope Francis on 31 October 2016. His formal installation as Archbishop of the
Archdiocese of Verapoly took place on 18 December 2016. Cardinal
George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, and Cardinal
Baselios Cleemis, Major Archbishop of Trivandrum were a part of the installation ceremony. ==Episcopal motto==