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OSWALD CARDINAL GRACIAS – ARCHBISHOP OF MUMBAI (CHAIRMAN)

His Eminence Oswald Cardinal Gracias (born on 24th December, 1944) was ordained a Priest on 20th December, 1970 and went on to be consecrated  Bishop on 16th September, 1997. On 14th October, 2006, he was appointed as Archbishop of Bombay by Pope Benedict XVI.  In  2007, he was elevated to the College of Cardinals. On 20th February 2008, Cardinal Gracias was elected 1st Vice President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) of which he had earlier served as Secretary General.  In 2010, he was elected as the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (having been the vice-president from 2008). Cardinal Gracias is also Secretary General of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conference. On 13th April 2013, he was appointed by Pope Francis as a member of the  group of eight cardinals to advise him and to study a plan for revising the Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Curia, ‘Pastor Bonus’.

 

FR. JOSEPH GONSALVES (MANAGING TRUSTEE & DIRECTOR)

Fr. Joseph Gonsalves was ordained a priest on 2nd April 2005. He has served in two parishes as Assistant at St. Anthony’s Church Dharavi and St. John the Baptist Church, Thane. He completed his Masters in Social Work Degree from Tata Institute of Social Science in 2014 and thereafter he was appointed as a full time faculty at St. Pius College, Goregaon also known as the Diocesan Seminary. At the seminary he was the Moderator of the Philosophers and a professor of Sociology of Religion, Fundamentals of Sociology, Introduction to Social Work and Social Analysis, Human Rights, Church History and Homiletics.

Presently he is also the Executive Secretary of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conference (FABC) – Office of Human Development/Climate Change Desk (OHD/CCD). He is a former Head of the Archdiocesan Office for Environment and the Director of Prison Ministry Mumbai. He is also a member of the Justice and Peace Commission and Migrants Commission, Archdiocese of Bombay.

 

FR. NEIL DOS SANTOS (CO-TRUSTEE)

Fr. Neil dos Santos – Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Bombay is a Catholic Priest with an experience of 12 years in animation of community based organizations at the grassroots.

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