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Vincent Conçessao
Vincent Michael Conçessao (born 28 September 1936) is a prominent Indian Catholic Church, Catholic (Latin Rite) clergyman who was installed as the fifth Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Delhi, Archbishop of Delhi in November 2000. He served as Vice President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India from 2000 to 2004. Birth and education Vincent Michael Conçessao was born on 28 September 1936 at Puttur, Karnataka, Puttur in South Kanara district, Karnataka state, the fifth of eight children in a middle-class family. His parents were devout Catholics. He attended St. Francis Xavier Primary School and then St Philomena's Boy's High School, Puttur for his secondary education. In 1961 he joined St. Joseph's Seminary at Jeppu in Mangalore. His father died that year. He was ordained in Mangalore on 4 December 1961. In 1962 Conçessao moved to New Delhi where he was appointed Assistant Parish Priest at the Sacred Heart Cathedral, New Delhi. In 1965 he was admitted to Loyola Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Delhi
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Delhi ( la, Delhien(sis)) is a Latin Church Metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in northern India. Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is Sacred Heart Cathedral, in the national capital city of New Delhi History * 13 September 1910: Established as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Simla, on territory split off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Agra and Diocese of Lahore. * 13 April 1937: Renamed as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Delhi and Simla. * 4 June 1959: Renamed as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Delhi, having lost territory to establish as suffragan the Diocese of Simla. Pope John Paul II made two papal visits, in February 1986 and November 1999. Statistics , the diocese served 115,300 Catholics (0.4% of the total population of 26,810,000) in , with 60 parishes and 4 missions. Personnel consisted of 301 priests (130 diocesan, 171 religious), 1,006 lay religious (391 brothers, 615 sisters) and 25 seminarians. Ordinaries (all Latin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |