Bishop Niranjan Sual Singh is the serving bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Sambalpur
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sambalpur ( la, Sambalpuren(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Sambalpur in the Ecclesiastical province of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar in India.
History
* 14 June 1951: Established as Diocese of Sambalpur from t ...
,
India .
Early life and education
He was born in
Kottama,
India on 20 July 1961 to Mr. Ambrose Sual Singh & Mrs. Bastina Sual Singh. He holds a doctorate in theology from the
Pontifical Urban University,
Rome.
Priesthood
He was ordained a priest on 29 April 1991.
Episcopate
He succeeded Bishop Lukas Kerketta,
S.V.D.
The Society of the Divine Word ( la, Societas Verbi Divini), abbreviated SVD and popularly called the Verbites or the Divine Word Missionaries, and sometimes the Steyler Missionaries, is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Ri ...
, and was appointed by the pope on 26 July 2013 and ordained on 28 September 2013.
See also
List of Catholic bishops of India
The following is a list of living Catholic bishops of India sorted by ecclesiastical province and diocese. The bishops of India include two major archbishops, one each of the Syro-Malabar and the Syro-Malankara church, and one of the four titula ...
References
External links
Living people
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in India
People from Odisha
1961 births
Pontifical Urban University alumni
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