Bangalore, January 29, 2024 (CCBI): Rev. Dr. Christopher Vimalraj (56) from the Archdiocese of Bangalore was installed as Associate Deputy Secretary General of the CCBI on January 29, 2024. His Eminence Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, the President of CCBI, presided over the installation prayer service held at the chapel of the CCBI General Secretariat, Bangalore in the presence of Most Rev. Dr. George Antonysamy, Vice President CCBI and Most Rev. Dr. Peter Machado, Archbishop o

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Bangalore 29 January 2023 (CCBI): The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) elects new Chairmen for its 16 Commissions on Sunday 29 January 2023 during the 34 Plenary Assembly. New Chairmen were elected: (1) Bishop Selvister Ponnumuthan, Bishop of Punalur, Kerala: Chairman, Commission for Basic Ecclesial Communities; (2) Bishop Antonysamy Savarimuthu, Bishop of Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu: Chairman, Commission for Canon Law and Legislative Texts; (3) Bishop George Pall

THEME: ‘Telling the Story of Jesus in our Context: The Synodal Way” January 24-30, 2023, St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bengaluru. MESSAGE We, the members of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), came together for the 34th Plenary Assembly from 24 to 30 January 2023, at St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bengaluru. We prayed, reflected on and discussed the theme: ‘Telling the Story of Jesus in our Context: The Synodal Way.’ The Chur

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Bp. Thomas Ignatus Macwan, Bishop of Ahmedabad-Optimized-1galore, 12 June 2015: His Holiness Pope Francis appointed His Excellency Rt. Rev. Thomas Ignatius Macwan, till now Bishop of Ahmedabad, as the new Archbishop of Gandhinagar. Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of His Grace Most Rev. Stanislaus Fernandes, S.J., from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Gandhinagar, according to Canon Law Can. 401 § 1, Bishop Macwan is also appointed as Apostolic Administrator s

Vatican 23 May 2016: Holy Father Pope Francis has appointed His Grace Most Rev. Stanislaus Fernandes, SJ, Archbishop Emeritus of Gandhinagar, Apostolic Administrator sede plena et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the Diocese of Baroda, due to the reasons of health of His Excellency Most Rev. Godfrey de Rozario, SJ, Bishop of Baroda. Archbishop Stanislaus Fernandes was born on 8 October 1939 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. At the age of 28, he was ordained Priest on 23 March 1968 and he prof

Dindigul 11 April 2016: His Holiness ‎Pope Francis on Monday 11 April 2016 appointed Fr. Thomas Paulsamy as the new bishop of Dindigul, in Tamil Nadu state, making it a suffragan of Madurai Metropolitan Archdiocese. The see of Dindigul has been vacant since the transfer of Bishop Antony Pappusamy as Archbishop of Madurai in 26 July 2014. Fr. Paulsamy was born on 2 August1951 at N. Poolampatty, in Tiruchirapalli Diocese. After his schooling in his native village he studied phi