Joseph Panjikaran
The Vatican record
- 18 December 2025 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2025)
Who they were
Joseph Panjikaran was a diocesan priest and founder of the Congregation of the Medical Sisters of St Joseph; he was born at Uzhuva, India, on 10 September 1888 and died at Kothamangalam, India, on 4 November 1949. Pope Leo XIV recognised his heroic virtue on 18 December 2025.
The miracles
The Church has not yet approved a miracle in this cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Church recognised his heroic virtue in 2025.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - decrees published in 2025
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Not yet in Wikidata. Name as the Vatican spells it.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.