The author: Paul Julian was born in 1954 in Chennai, India. After the completion of his bachelor’s in mathematics at Loyola College (Chennai), he pursued his philosophical and theological studies at the local Sacred Heart Seminary and was ordained priest in 1982. From 1989-1991 he did his master’s and canonical licence in liturgy and sacramental theology at Institut Supérieur de Liturgie of the Institut Catholique de Paris. Having taught liturgy and sacraments at the above seminary from 1991-1994, he joined the University of Würzburg, Germany and obtained in July 2000 his doctorate in NT exegesis. Since then he is back on the staff of the same seminary.

The author: Paul Julian was born in 1954 in Chennai, India. After the completion of his bachelor’s in mathematics at Loyola College (Chennai), he pursued his philosophical and theological studies at the local Sacred Heart Seminary and was ordained priest in 1982. From 1989-1991 he did his master’s and canonical licence in liturgy and sacramental theology at Institut Supérieur de Liturgie of the Institut Catholique de Paris. Having taught liturgy and sacraments at the above seminary from 1991-1994, he joined the University of Würzburg, Germany and obtained in July 2000 his doctorate in NT exegesis. Since then he is back on the staff of the same seminary.