Jesu Pudumai Doss, M.J. is a Catholic priest and a religious, specifically a Salesian of Don Bosco (SDB: a member of Society of St. Francis of Sales), from Chennai, India.
He was born in Chennai, the then Madras, (St. Roque's Parish, Old Washermenpet) on 25 December 1967, as the fifth child of (late) Mr. Maria James and Mrs. Amalapushpam, both professors and eminent educationists.
Concluding the Novitiate at Don Bosco, Coimbatore (1985–1986), he made his First Religious Salesian Profession on 24 May 1986.
Besides teaching at UPS, he is also a regular visiting professor at Don Bosco Theological Centre, Chennai, as was occasionally at other Theological Centres in Bangalore (Kristu Jyoti College) and Shillong (Sacred Heart College), India and at the Faculty of Canon Law, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (UKSW), Warsaw, Poland.
He is also an External Judge, from 2006, in the Regional Tribunal for Lazio of the Vicariate of Rome; a Special Commissioner for favor fidei cases at the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith at the Vatican from 2007; and a Defender of Bond for the Non-Consummated Marriage Cases, at the Special Office at the Roman Rota, Vatican.
He is also Canon Law consultant to various Italian dioceses and religious institutes (especially Salesian provinces).