Aloysius Paul D'Souza
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His Excellency Aloysius Paul D'Souza |
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| Bishop of Mangalore | |
| Church | Roman Catholic church |
| See | Diocese of Mangalore |
| In office | 1996–present |
| Predecessor | Basil Salvodore D'souza |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 8 November 1966 |
| Consecration | by Basil Salvodore D'souza, Alphonsus Mathias,and Patrick Paul D'souza |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
21 June 1941 Bantwal, Karnataka, India |
| Previous post | Auxilury Bhishop |
Aloysius Paul D'Souza (Konkani: अलोय्सिउस पौल डी सोझा (Devanagari), ಎಲೋಷಿಯಸ್ ಪಾವ್ಲ್ ಡಿ'ಸೋಜಾ (Kannada); born 21 June 1941) is the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore. He was consecrated on 8 November 1996, succeeding his predecessor Basil Salvadore D'Souza.
Aloysius Paul D'Souza was born on 21 June 1941 in Hekkotu, a neighbourhood in the Agrar suburb of Bantwal, Dakshina Kannada. He was the sixth of seven children to Mathias and Isabella D'Souza. The family belonged to the D'Souza-Kamath clan, a Mangalorean Catholic clan of the same area. One of his brothers Fr. Charles D'Souza is a pastor in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Delhi, and one of his sisters Sr. Janis A.C., is a nun in Chandigarh. He completed his primary education at Agrar, and did his pre-university studies at the S. V. S. High School in Bantwal. In 1958, the same year of joining the high school, he joined the St. Joseph's seminary to study for the priesthood.
D'Souza was ordained as a priest on 3 December 1966, and served as Assistant Priest of the Holy Cross Church, Cordel until 1970. During this time, he graduated from Karnataka University. Impressed by his competence and his creativeness and knowledge of Roman Catholic theology, the then Bishop of Mangalore Basil Salvadore D'Souza appointed D'Souza as the Diocesan Secretary. In 1971, the Diocesean authorities sent him to Rome to do a doctorate in canonical law, where he specialised in Christian Marriage Law. Upon completing his doctorate, he was subsequently appointed as an Advocate of Roman Rota—the supreme tribunal of Catholic Church, thereby becoming the first Indian priest to achieve this distinction. D'Souza is one of only two Indians to qualify as an Advocate of Roman Rota, in which capacity he was Judicial Vicar of the Mangalore Tribunal from 1984.
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