Reverend George Thadathil,             Campus Chaplain

The Rev. George Thadathil, C.M.I., came to The Dominican Campus this summer after serving at St. Stephen's Church in Old Hickory and St. Patrick in McEwen.

Father George  was born in a small town in the state of Kerala in South India. He has five brothers and four sisters. One of his eldest brothers belongs to the Order of Society of St. Paul and has been serving in India for the past 30 years.  

In 1974, following high school, Father George joined the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate and made his first religious profession on June 3, 1979. After 8 years of college studies, he was ordained on May 6, 1988. Father George was then assigned as the vocation promoter of his order. During that same time, he was appointed as the rector of a high school, which boarded 75 boys. Two years later, he went for higher studies and received his B.A. in education after which he spent time as a teacher in a public high school. From 1993 to 1999, Father George served as the superior of a monastery, which was also a parish, thus making him the pastor of a 500-family parish. Father George also served as principal of a public high school. In 1999, he was elected as the provincial councilor for education for three years for the Carmelites. While he continued to teach, he earned his master's degree in sociology.

Father George came to the United States in October 2003 and served as an associate pastor for two and a half years at St Stephen’s Church in Old Hickory. He then served for almost a year as the administrator of St Patrick church in McEwen and St. Elizabeth Ann Seaton church in Tennessee Ridge.