Nationality Indian Name Alphonsus Mathias | Consecration February 5, 1964 Ordination August 24, 1954 | |
Born 22 June 1928
Pangala, India ( 1928-06-22 ) Archdiocese Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bangalore | ||
Alphonsus Mathias (born 22 June 1928 in Pangala, India) is a Roman Catholic archbishop.
Biography
He was ordained a priest on 24 August 1954 and was appointed as the bishop of the Diocese of Chikmagalur on 16 November 1963. The Apostolic Internuncio in India James Knox consecrated him on 5 February of the next year to the bishop ; co-consecrators were Albert Vincent D'Souza, Archbishop of Calcutta, and Raymond D'Mello, Bishop of Allahabad.
Mathias attended the Second Vatican Council. On 12 September 1986, he was appointed Archbishop of Bangalore, a role in which he served until he resigned on 24 March 1998. He was the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India from 1989 to 1994.
References
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