Msgr. George Panamthundil is appointed as the Nuncio to Kazakhstan. He is the first priest to become the Nuncio of the Syro Malankara Catholic Church. Currently, he is the Chargé d’affaires of the Nunciature in Cyprus.
He was born on 20 May 1972 in Trivandrum, Kerala. He was ordained a priest on 18 February 1998 for the Syro-Malankara Archdiocese of Trivandrum.
He graduated in Eastern Canon Law from Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome. He entered the Diplomatic Service of the Holy See on 1 July 2005, and worked in the Apostolic Nunciature in Costa Rica, Guinea, Iraq, Austria, and Israel, the Apostolic Delegation in Jerusalem and Palestine, and the Pontifical Representation in Cyprus. His episcopal ordination will be on 9 September 2023.