Ignaci Siluvai  Ignaci Siluvai (or "Ignatius Siluvai", also "Siluvai Ignaci") is an Indian priest and educator who established the Father Sebastian Educational and Charitable Trust and founded the Pastor Lenssen Polytechnic College (PLPC). Ignaci Siluvai was born in Kuthenkully of the diocese of Tuticorin, in the civil district of Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India on 5 June 1947. He was ordained a priest for the diocese of Tuticorin on 22 July 1971. He obtained licentiate in philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy, bachelor in theology from the Faculty of Theology and diploma in biblical philology from the Faculty of Letters of Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (1966–1973) and obtained a licentiate in Sacred Scripture and a doctorate from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, Italy (1975–1981). He has served as assistant parish priest and parish priest in various parishes in the diocese of Tuticorin, as secretary to bishop and assistant parish priest at the Cathedral (1973–1975), assistant director of St. Joseph's charity institute, Adaikalapuram and rector in-charge Christ Hall seminary, Karumathur (1982–1983), director of St. Ignatius Boys Home, Inigo Press, and St. Ignatius Industrial School, Tuticorin (1983–1987/1989?), parish priest of St. Ignatius Parish, Innaciarpuram (1984–1989) as well as a parish priest of St. Joseph's Church in Kuttapuly (1990/1991?–1995), a small fishing village, where in 1991 he helped to build stone houses for the poor and in 1991/1992 built a larger school. Supported by Aachen pastors Ferdinand Lenßen and Bernhard Kreutz, Siluvai moved to Germany in 1995, and worked as parish administrator in , and (1995–1996) as well as a pastor at in (Heinsberg) (June 1996 – 2000) of the diocese Aachen before he moved back to India on 27/28 February 2000. For a long time Siluvai had a dream to uplift the rural youth in India knowing that education would be the only way to achieve the development of the youth personally at micro level and socially at a macro level. Aiming at this vision, he established the Father Sebastian Educational and Charitable Trust in 1997.