Simeon Anthony Pereira (19 October 1927,

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- 22 August 2006,

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) was a former

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Life

Pereira was educated at St Patrick's High School, Karachi. He received his religious training at the Papal Seminary, Kandy, Sri Lanka and was ordained a priest on 24 August 1951. He first worked as secretary to

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Archbishop James Cornelius van Miltenburg of Karachi, and Chaplain to the Sisters and flock at Manora. His next posting was Father-in charge of the Don Bosco Boarding for boys in Karachi. In 1952, he proceeded to Quetta as assistant rector of St. Pius X Minor Seminary. A few years later, he was appointed Parish Priest of Saint Francis of Assisi Church, Old Haji Camp. His next appointment was as Parish Priest of Saint John's Church, Drigh Road, Karachi. Following the liturgical reforms of the

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, he worked with Father Liberius, a scholar and linguist, to introduce

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into the liturgy. On 3 July 1971,

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appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Rawalpindi, Pakistan. On 17 December 1973 he was appointed

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of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi. He was bishop of Rawalpindi for nearly 20 years. On 22 March 1993 he was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Karachi. He succeeded Cardinal Joseph Cordeiro as Archbishop of Karachi on 11 February 1994 and retired from that office on 20 November 2002. Pereira celebrated the silver jubilee of his episcopal ordination on 4 October 1996, with a bilingual Mass concelebrated with retired Franciscan Bishop

Bonaventure Patrick Paul Bonaventure Patrick Paul OFM† (26 March 1929, Karachi - 18 January 2007) was a former Bishop of Hyderabad, Pakistan. Career He received his early education at St Patrick's High School, Karachi. He received his religious training under the Orde ...

. After retiring in November 2002, he served as pastor of St. Thomas Church in Malir and as chaplain of the Dominican nuns at the Monastery of the Angels in Landhi. He was also president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Pakistan. Pereira died on 22 August 2006.

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St. Patrick's High School, Karachi alumni 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Pakistan 1927 births 2006 deaths Roman Catholic archbishops of Karachi Roman Catholic bishops of Islamabad-Rawalpindi {{Pakistan-RC-bishop-stub