[1][2][3] Daniel Acharuparambil, the Archbishop of Verapoly, was a member of Discalced Carmelite Order, Manjummel Province, Kerala, India.
[5] He acquired a bachelor's degree in economics, licentiate in philosophy and a master's degree in Indian philosophy from the University of Kerala, Pontifical Athenaeum in Poona and Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, respectively.
In 1978 Acharuparambil was awarded a Ph.D. from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, Rome with a dissertation entitled The destiny of man in the evolutionary thought of Sri Aurobindo.
He was also consulter of the Congregation for Evangelization of the Peoples, a member of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Duologue.
He was nominated Archbishop on 5 August 1996 and was consecrated at Ernakulam on 3 November 1996[6] by Josef Cardinal Tomko, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Rome.