Joseph Indrias Rehmat (born 1 July 1966) is the Roman Catholic Bishop of

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. On June 29, 2019

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appointed Father Joseph Indrias Rehmat, of the Diocese of Faisalabad, currently Dean of the

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, as Bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Faisalabad The Roman Catholic Diocese of Faisalabad (Lat: ''Dioecesis Faisalabadensis'') is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in Pakistan. History Erected in 1960, as the Diocese of Lyallpur, the diocese was created from the Dio ...

.Agenzia Fides 1 July 2019
He was born on 1 July 1966 in Okara. He began his education at St. Albert High School in

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city. He entered the St. Thomas the Apostle Minor Seminary and he completed his studies at the Christ the King major Seminary in 1992. He was ordained a priest on 25 September 1992 for the diocese of Faisalabad. In 2000 he obtained a Doctorate in

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at the

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in Rome. Since his ordination he has had the following appointments: 1992-1995 Parish priest at Chak 424, in Faisalabad; since 2000, Professor of moral theology at the National Catholic Institute of Theology; 2000-2006, Professor at the Christ the King Major Seminary in Karachi; 2006-2008, priest in the diocese of Hyderabad; 2009-2014, parish priest of the Sacred Heart parish in Karachi; since 2014, Dean of the National Catholic Institute of Theology in Karachi Bishop Rehmat replaces Archbishop

Joseph Arshad Joseph Arshad (born August 25, 1964) is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi in Pakistan. Biography Arshad was born on August 25, 1964, in Lahore. After completing school, he began his priestly education at St. Mary's Minor Semi ...

who was transferred to the Islamabad-Rawalpindi Diocese in December 2017. Bishop Rehmat has already begun to represent the diocese by participating in the delegation from the Pakistan Catholic Bishops' Conference which met Prime Minister

Imran Khan Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi ( ur}; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former Cricket captain who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confidenc ...

on July 4, 2019, with a donation on behalf of the Catholic community. He was ordained bishop on 13 September 2019 at La Salle High School Faisalabad. The Principal Consecrator was Joseph Cardinal Coutts, Archbishop of Karachi and his Co-Consecrators were Archbishop Christophe Zakhia El-Kassis,

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and Archbishop Joseph Arshad, Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi. On August 16, 2023, Rehmat celebrated Mass held in

Jaranwala Jaranwala ( Punjabi and ur, ) is a city and capital of Jaranwala Tehsil located in the Faisalabad District of Punjab, Pakistan.

where thousands of people were displaced from their homes after 24 churches and many Christian homes were attacked by mobs claiming desecration of the Qur'an.Independent Catholic News August 22, 2023
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