[1] While Paul served as director of Christa Seva Vidhyalaya in Chennai, she registered as an external candidate to pursue the graduate course of Bachelor of Divinity (B.D.)
Sundar Clarke, then Bishop – in – Madras of the Church of South India ordained Paul as a deacon on 6 May 1976.
[1] Bishop Kenneth Gill writes that the Synod of 1970 of the Church of South India took up the question of ordination of women.
[1] Paul participated in Diakonia World Federation Assemblies in 1963 and 1966 held at Berlin and Edinburgh and in 1976 became its vice-president.
[4] Paul was looking after Vishranti Nilayam, the headquarters of the CSI Order of Sisters in the Church of South India when she died on 17 January 2001 due to a prolonged illness caused by a broken tooth.