Bishop Udumala Bala Showreddy is the serving Bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Warangal The Roman Catholic Diocese of Warangal ( la, Varangalen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Warangal in the Ecclesiastical province of Hyderabad in India. History * 22 December 1952: Established as Diocese of Warangal from the Diocese o ...

Early life

He was born on 18 June 1954 in Ghanpur,

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

, India.

Education

He has acquired the

Doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...

Moral Theology Ethics involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior.''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy''"Ethics"/ref> A central aspect of ethics is "the good life", the life worth living or life that is simply sati ...

from Alphonsianum,

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Priesthood

He was ordained a priest on 20 February 1979. He has served in several pastoral and administrative roles in his diocese before becoming a bishop. He was deputy-secretary general of the

Catholic Bishops' Conference of India The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) is the permanent association of the Catholic bishops of India. It was established in September 1944, in Chennai. The CBCI Secretariat was located in Bangalore until 1962, when it was shifted to t ...

(CCBI),

Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

. From 1994 to 2006 he taught moral theology at St. John’s Regional Seminary,

Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...

Episcopate

He was appointed bishop of Warangal, India, on 13 April 2013 by

Pope Francis Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...

. He was ordained a bishop on 23 May 2013 by

Oswald Cardinal Gracias Oswald Gracias (born 24 December 1944) is an Indian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was appointed Latin Church Archbishop of Bombay by Pope Benedict XVI on 14 October 2006 and was raised to the cardinalate in 2007. In 2008, he becam ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Udumala Bala Showreddy 1954 births Living people 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in India Christian clergy from Andhra Pradesh Bishops appointed by Pope Francis Alphonsian Academy alumni