Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Jul 4: Newly appointed Bishop of Mangaluru diocese, Dr Peter Paul Saldanha, visited Our Lady of Remedies Church, Kirem, Aikala near Kinnigoli in the taluk in the company of Bishop Dr Aloysius Paul D'Souza and offered special service.
Thereafter, he visited Kajeguri, Aikala, where he was born and brought up. He stayed for Tuesday night at the house of his elder brother, the late Cyril Saldanha at Nelligudde near Kajeguri. He would be returning to the city on Wednesday.
With the appointment of Dr Peter Paul Saldanha as bishop, Kinnigoli area has got credit for contributing four bishops to religious service. In the past, Dr Raymond D’Mello who was bishop of Mangaluru from 1959-1963, Dr Robert Miranda, present bishop of Gulbarga, Dr Henry D’Souza, present bishop of Bellary from here had become bishops.
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