Ivan Dias
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His Eminence Ivan Dias |
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| Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples | |
Dias (left) at a 2005 Christmas Mass in Mumbai
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| See | Bombay (emeritus) |
| Appointed | 20 May 2006 |
| Term ended | 10 May 2011 |
| Predecessor | Crescenzio Sepe |
| Successor | Fernando Filoni |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of Spirito Santo alla Ferratella |
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| Ordination | 8 December 1958 by Valerian Gracias |
| Consecration | 19 June 1982 by Agostino Casaroli |
| Created Cardinal | 21 February 2001 |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Ivan Dias |
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14 April 1936 Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Motto | Servus (Servant) |
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Styles of Ivan Dias |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Bombay (Emeritus) |
Ivan Dias (born 14 April 1936) is an Indian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples from 2006 to 2011, having previously served as Archbishop of Bombay (1996–2006) and papal diplomat in the Balkans, East Asia, and West Africa. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.
Ivan Dias was born in Bandra, a suburb of Bombay, to Carlo Nazaro Dias (d. 1953) and Maria Martins Dias (d. 1991), both Goans. Cardinal Ivan Dias' ancestral village is Velsao in Salcete, Goa; his father was undersecretary of the Home Department of the government of Maharashtra. The second oldest of four children, he has three brothers: Francis (a retired lieutenant general in the Indian military), Ralph, and Olaf (a doctor). After graduating from the Jesuit St. Stanislaus High School, he entered the seminary of the Archdiocese of Bombay and was later ordained to the priesthood by Valerian Gracias on 8 December 1958. He then did pastoral work in Bombay as curate at St. Stephen's Church until 1961, when he was sent to Rome to further his studies. He there attended the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy and the Pontifical Lateran University, from where he obtained a doctorate in canon law in 1964.
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