Alphonsus Mathias | |
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Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore | |
Archdiocese | Bangalore |
Orders | |
Ordination | 24 August 1954 |
Consecration | 5 Feb 1964 by James Knox |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Nationality | Indian |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Residence | Bangalore India |
Parents | Diego Mathias and Philomena D’Souza |
Alphonsus Mathias (born on June 22, 1928, in Pangala, India) is a retired Roman Catholic archbishop of the archdiocese of Bangalore.
He was ordained a priest on 24 August 1954 and was appointed as the bishop of the Diocese of Chikmagalur on 16 November 1963.[1] 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.[2][3] He was the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India from 1989 to 1994.[4]