Recent Events

Fr. Bernard Laloo was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Trofimiana and Auxiliary Bishop of Shillong (India)

Bishop Udumala Bala Showreddy, Bishop of Warangal (India), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Visakhapatnam (India)

Fr. Selvarajan Dasan, Priest of Neyyattinkara (India), was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Neyyattinkara (India)

Fr. Bernard Laloo, Priest of Shillong (India), was elected Titular Bishop of Trofimiana and Auxiliary Bishop of Shillong (India)

Bishop Jaya Rao Polimera resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Visakhapatnam (India)

Bishop Clement Tirkey resigned as Bishop of Jalpaiguri (India)

Fr. Fabian Toppo, Priest of Jalpaiguri (India), was elected Bishop of Jalpaiguri (India)

Archbishop Vincent Aind, Metropolitan Archbishop of Ranchi (India), was appointed as General Secretary of Conference of Catholic Bishops of India

Archbishop George Antonysamy resigned as Vice-President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of India

Archbishop Anil Joseph Thomas Couto resigned as General Secretary of Conference of Catholic Bishops of India

Archbishop Peter Machado, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bangalore (India), was appointed as Vice-President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of India

Cardinal Oswald Gracias resigned as Metropolitan Archbishop of Bombay (India)

Archbishop John Rodrigues succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Bombay (India)

Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad was appointed as Prefect of Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue

Bishop Bosco Puthur resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Ernakulam–Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars (India)

Archbishop Joseph Pamplany, Metropolitan Archbishop of Tellicherry of the Syro-Malabars (India) and Secretary of Synod of the Syro-Malabar Church, was appointed as Major-Archepiscopal Vicar of Ernakulam–Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars (India)

Fr. Anthony Das Pilli was consecrated as Coadjutor Bishop of Nellore (India)

Cardinal Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão, Patriarch of East Indies, Metropolitan Archbishop of Goa and Daman (India) and President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of India, was appointed as President of Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences

Bishop Wilfred Gregory Moras succeeded as Bishop of Jhansi (India)

Bishop Peter Parapullil resigned as Bishop of Jhansi (India)

Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Cardinal-Priest of S. Paolo della Croce a «Corviale», Metropolitan Archbishop of Bombay (India) and Member of Council of Cardinals, reached the age of 80 and became ineligible to vote in a future conclave (India)

Fr. Thomas Francis D’Souza was consecrated as Bishop of Vasai (India)

Fr. Ambrose Pitchaimuthu was consecrated as Bishop of Vellore (India)

Archbishop George Jacob Koovakad, Titular Archbishop of Nisibis of the Chaldeans, was created Cardinal-Deacon of S. Antonio di Padova a Circonvallazione Appia

Bishop John Rodrigues, Bishop of Poona (India), was promoted as Coadjutor Archbishop of Bombay (India)

Msgr. George Jacob Koovakad was consecrated as Titular Archbishop of Nisibis of the Chaldeans

Msgr. Dennis Kuruppassery was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Macomades rusticiana and Auxiliary Bishop of Kannur (India)

Bishop Antony Prince Panengaden, Bishop of Shamshabad of the Syro-Malabars (India), was appointed as Archiepiscopal Administrator of Adilabad of the Syro-Malabars (India)

Fr. Thomas Francis D’Souza, Priest of Vasai (India), was elected Bishop of Vasai (India)

Fr. Anthony Das Pilli, Priest of Nellore (India), was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Nellore (India)

Fr. Ambrose Pitchaimuthu, Priest of Chingleput (India), was elected Bishop of Vellore (India)

Bishop Paul Simick, Titular Bishop of Maturba and Vicar Apostolic of Nepal (Nepal), was appointed as Bishop of Bagdogra (India)

Archbishop Antony Pappusamy resigned as Metropolitan Archbishop of Madurai (India)

Bishop Antonysamy Savarimuthu, Bishop of Palayamkottai (India), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Madurai (India)

Msgr. George Jacob Koovakad, Priest of Changanacherry of the Syro-Malabars (India) and Prelate of Honour of His Holiness, was elected Titular Archbishop of Nisibis of the Chaldeans

Bishop Anthony Alwyn Fernandes Barreto resigned as Bishop of Sindhudurg (India)

Archbishop Joseph Perumthotttam resigned as Metropolitan Archbishop of Changanacherry of the Syro-Malabars (India)

Bishop Thomas Tharayil (Tomy), Titular Bishop of Agrippias and Auxiliary Bishop of Changanacherry of the Syro-Malabars (India), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Changanacherry of the Syro-Malabars (India)

Bishop Joseph Kollamparambil resigned as Archiepiscopal Administrator of Shamshabad of the Syro-Malabars (India)

Bishop Antony Prince Panengaden, Bishop of Adilabad of the Syro-Malabars (India), was appointed as Bishop of Shamshabad of the Syro-Malabars (India)

Fr. Arokia Raj Satis Kumar was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Castellum minus and Auxiliary Bishop of Bangalore (India)

Fr. Joseph Soosainathan was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Castra Galbæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Bangalore (India)

Fr. Sagayaraj Thamburaj was consecrated as Bishop of Tanjore (India)

Msgr. Dennis Kuruppassery, Priest of Kottapuram (India) and Prelate of Honour of His Holiness, was elected Titular Bishop of Macomades rusticiana and Auxiliary Bishop of Kannur (India)

Fr. Wilfred Gregory Moras was consecrated as Coadjutor Bishop of Jhansi (India)

Fr. Tom Thomas, I.C., was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Falkland Islands (Falkland Islands) and Ecclesiastical Superior of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)

Fr. Arokia Raj Satis Kumar, Priest of Bangalore (India), was elected Titular Bishop of Castellum minus and Auxiliary Bishop of Bangalore (India)

Fr. Joseph Soosainathan, Priest of Bangalore (India), was elected Titular Bishop of Castra Galbæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Bangalore (India)

Fr. Sagayaraj Thamburaj, Priest of Tiruchirapalli (India), was elected Bishop of Tanjore (India)

Archbishop Alphonsus Mathias, Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Bangalore (India), passed away at 96

Bishop George Mamalassery, Bishop emeritus of Tura (India), passed away at 92

Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, Cardinal-Deacon of S. Anselmo all’Aventino, was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Anselmo all’Aventino pro hac vice Title

Fr. Antony Valumkal was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Magarmel and Auxiliary Bishop of Verapoly (India)

Fr. Simiao Purificaçao Fernandes was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Saldæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Goa and Daman (India)

Archbishop Felix Anthony Machado resigned as Archbishop-Bishop of Vasai (India)

Bishop Pius Thomas D’Souza resigned as Bishop of Ajmer (India)

Archbishop Thumma Bala, Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Hyderabad (India), passed away at 80

Bishop Devadass Ambrose Mariadoss, Bishop emeritus of Tanjore (India), passed away at 76

Bishop Joseph Suren Gomes, S.D.B., Bishop emeritus of Krishnagar (India), passed away at 80

Fr. Wilfred Gregory Moras, Priest of Lucknow (India), was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Jhansi (India)

Fr. Antony Valumkal, Priest of Verapoly (India), was elected Titular Bishop of Magarmel and Auxiliary Bishop of Verapoly (India)