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Joseph Albert Rosario, M.S.F.S (30 May 1915 – 31 July 2011) was an Indian
prelate A prelate () is a high-ranking member of the Christian clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin , the past participle of , which means 'carry before', 'be set above or over' or 'pref ...
of the
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. He was one of oldest Roman Catholic Bishops and the oldest Bishop from India. Rosario was born in
Nagpur Nagpur (pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, aːɡpuːɾ is the third largest city and the winter capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the 13th largest city in India by population and according to an Oxford's Economics report, Nag ...
, India on 30 May 1915. He was ordained priest on 29 September 1944 in the
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of the Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales. Appointed on 8 May 1955 to the Diocese of Amravati, he was ordained bishop on 13 November 1955, retiring from governance of the see on 1 April 1995.


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Bishop Rosario was very popular among the non-Catholic masses of
Amravati Amravati (pronunciation (help·info)) is the second largest city in the Vidarbha region and ninth largest city in Maharashtra, India. It is administrative headquarters of Amravati district and Amravati division which includes Akola, Buldha ...
. He was particularly known in the region for his tolerance for other religions.


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1915 births 2011 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in India Participants in the Second Vatican Council {{India-RC-bishop-stub