Alphonsus Mathias (born on June 22, 1928, in

Pangala Pangala is a village situated in Udupi taluk of Udupi district, Karnataka. India's National Highway number 66 ( NH 66) connecting Mangalore ( Kudla or Mangaluru) to Mumbai (Bombay) passes through this village. The village is on the north banks ...

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) is a retired Roman Catholic archbishop of the archdiocese of Bangalore.

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 James Robert Knox GCC (2 March 1914 – 26 June 1983) was an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church. After years as a Vatican diplomat, he served as Archbishop of Melbourne from 1967 to 1974, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worshi ...

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

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. 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 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 ...

from 1989 to 1994.

References

External links

catholic-hierarchy.org
Roman Catholic archbishops of Bangalore 1928 births Living people People from Udupi district {{India-RC-bishop-stub