Gerald Isaac Lobo is the bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Udupi The Roman Catholic Diocese of Udupi ( la, Dioecesis Udupiensis) is a diocese located in the Kallianpur town of Udupi District of Karnataka, India. It was announced by Pope Benedict XVI on 16 July 2012. It comprises the six civil talukas Udupi ...

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'' ellevison', Udupi, 14 Oct 2012. Retrieved on 22 March 2014. He is born and brought up in the Agrar. A small town in

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district. He was born on 12 November 1949.

Priestly life

Bishop Gerald was ordained as a priest on November 12, 1977. After Ordaining as a priest he served as Assistant parish priest and as Parish priest in the various Parishes of Mangalore. Then he was appointed as the director o
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After this he was assigned with responsibility as the episcopal vicar of

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. On March 20, 2000, he was ordained as a Bishop of Shivamoga by then Arch Bishop of Bangalore Ignatius Paul Pinto. After leading the Diocese of Shivamoga for 17 years he was appointed as the first Bishop of Udupi.

References

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