Michael Xavier Leo Arokiaraj (born 8 September 1958) is an Indian clerical lawyer.
Michael Xavier Leo Arokiaraj (born 8 September 1958) is an Indian clerical lawyer.
Monsignore Michael Leo Arockiaraj was born on 8 September 1958 in Mettupatti, in the civil district of Dindigul of Tamil Nadu, South India and of the ecclesiastical diocese of Dindigul. [1] After his initial formation in St Augustine's minor seminary, Trichy, philosophical formation in Christ Hall seminary, Karumathur, and theological formation in Pontifical Urban University, Rome, where he was ordained a priest on 25 April 1984. [1]
He obtained a bachelor's degree in Indian civil law in the Government Law College, Trichy, Tamil Nadu and a licentiate and doctorate in canon law in Pontifical Urban University, Rome in 1992. [1]
He completed in 1998 his studies to the Roman Rota (Studium rotalis), and was later appointed head of the Chancery of the Roman Rota. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him as a judge (auditor) of the Roman Rota on May 5, 2007. [2] He is the first Asian and Indian to be appointed a judge in this Supreme Tribunal of the Catholic Church. [1] When Pope Francis created a commission to reform the matrimonial process, he was chosen as a member of the commission on 27 August 2014. [3]
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