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Indian-British Anglican bishop From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Varghese Malayil Lukose "Saju" Muthalaly (born 1979) is an Indian-British Anglican bishop. Since 2022, he has been the Bishop of Loughborough, a suffragan bishop in the Church of England's Diocese of Leicester.
Saju Muthalaly | |
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Bishop of Loughborough | |
Church | Church of England |
Diocese | Diocese of Leicester |
In office | 2022 to present |
Other post(s) | Assistant Bishop of Coventry (November 2023–present) |
Orders | |
Ordination | 2008 (deacon) 2009 (priest) |
Consecration | 25 January 2022 by Justin Welby |
Personal details | |
Born | Varghese Malayil Lukose Muthalaly 1979 (age 44–45) |
Denomination | Anglicanism |
Spouse | Katy |
Children | Four |
Alma mater | Southern Asia Bible College, Bangalore Wycliffe Hall, Oxford |
Muthalaly was born in 1979 in South India.[1][2] He grew up in a leprosy hospital in Bangalore, where his mother was a nurse.[3] His family were part of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, and he "committed his life to Christ" as a teenager.[3] He studied at the Southern Asia Bible College in Bangalore, graduating with a Bachelor of Theology (BTh) degree in 2001.[2][4] Having moved to the United Kingdom in 2001,[5] he trained for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, an evangelical Anglican theological college, and graduated from the University of Oxford with a further BTh in 2008.[2][3]
Muthalaly was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2008 and as a priest in 2009.[2] From 2008 to 2011, he served his curacy at St Thomas' Church, Lancaster, a charismatic evangelical church in the Diocese of Blackburn.[1][2] He then moved to the Diocese of Carlisle, where he was an associate vicar at St Thomas' Church, Kendal and St Catherine's Church, Crook from 2011 to 2015.[1] In 2015, he joined St Mark's Church, Gillingham and St Mary's Island in the Diocese of Rochester as priest in charge.[2][4] He was made vicar of St Mark's Gillingham in 2019.[2]
On 12 November 2021, it was announced that Muthalaly had been appointed the next Bishop of Loughborough, the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Leicester, in succession to Guli Francis-Dehqani.[1] He was consecrated a bishop by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 25 January 2022 at St Paul's Cathedral;[6] reportedly becoming the youngest bishop in the Church of England.[4] On 9 November 2023, he also became part-time Assistant Bishop of Coventry during the coinciding vacancies in the diocesan See and the See of Warwick; in that role, he assists Ruth Worsley (Acting Bishop of Coventry) one day a week.[7]
Muthalaly is married to Katy; together they have four children. In his spare time, he is a keen cricketer and has represented the Canterbury & Rochester (Rocherbury) Diocesan team and West Farleigh CC where he has shone as a big hitting all-rounder.[8] He captained the Diocesan team to the Semi Finals of the Church Times Cup in 2017.[9][3][5]
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