India is more than half-a-world away for Joseph (he prefers to be called Jos) Tharakan. Born in India, raised as a Catholic, ordained as a Franciscan monk and then received into the Episcopal Church, he is now the first person of color to be the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho.
[Diocese of Idaho] The Rt. Rev. Jos Tharakan, a native of Kerala, India, was ordained and consecrated the 14th bishop of the Episcopal Church in Idaho on June 2