Palackal Thoma Malpan

Mullankuzhy Palackal Thoma, T.O.C.D., commonly given the honorific title of Malpan, (c. 1780 – 1841) was an Indian Catholic priest of the Syro-Malabar Church based in India. He was the senior priest among the three founders of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (the first native religious institute of the Eastern Catholic Church), and the founder of the first seminary for Syro-Malabar Catholics.

Palackal was born into a Syrian Catholic (Syro-Malabar) family of Mullankuzhy about the year 1780 in the village of Pallippuram, now part of the state of Kerala, then in the Kingdom of Travancore. He felt a call to the Christian ministry, for which he pursued theological studies under a noted priest of the Syrian Church, Abraham Thachil. He received Holy Orders in 1807.

After Palackal's ordination he was named as Secretary for the Saint Thomas Christians and a councilor to the Vicariate Apostolic of Malabar (now the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Verapoly), who led them in the name of the Holy See in Rome, Bishop Raimundo di San Giuseppe Roviglia, O.C.D. (1803–1815). He would serve as a councilor to the Apostolic Vicariate for the rest of his life.

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