# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saint-kuriakose-elias-chavara
# Generated: 2026-08-16T08:24:36.925Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saint-kuriakose-elias-chavara"
name: "Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara"
slug: "saint-kuriakose-elias-chavara"
description: "Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara, CMI was an Indian Catholic priest, religious, philosopher and social reformer. He is the first canonised Catholic male saint of Indian origin and was a member of the Syro-Malabar Church, an Eastern Catholic church. \nHe was the co-founder and first Prior General of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), the first religious congregation for men in the Syro-Malabar Church. The Congregation of the Mother of Carmel (CMC), originally known as the Third Order of Discalced Carmelites (TOCD), was founded by St Kuriakose Elias Chavara in 1866 in Kerala."
tagline: "Indian Carmelite priest and Religious Founder (1805–1871)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kuriakose_Chavara_und_Hl._Familie.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1805-02-10"
deathDate: "1871-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.65589384237445
  historical:           13.90404
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "كورياكوز الياس شافارا"
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    title: "Kuriakose Elias Chavara"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump