John Mulagada

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John Mulagada (born December 12, 1937 in Parripadu , Andhra Pradesh , India , † August 16, 2009 in Vijayawada , Andhra Pradesh, India) was Bishop of Eluru .

Life

John Mulagada studied at St. John's Seminary in Hyderabad and was ordained a priest on January 4, 1965 .

Pope Paul VI appointed him in 1976 as the first bishop of the newly founded diocese of Eluru , a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam . He was ordained episcopate on May 5, 1977, by the former Archbishop of Bangalore and later Cardinal Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy , Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples ; Co- consecrators were Saminini Arulappa , Archbishop of Hyderabad, and Ignatius Gopu MSFS , Bishop of Visakhapatnam.

He was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in India to belong to the Dalit (“untouchable”) caste . He was particularly committed to social justice and access to educational institutions of the “untouchables” caste. He was named the first Telugu bishop.

John Mulagada died in office after a brief illness. The memorial service on August 19, 2009 at St. Xavier's Grounds in Eluru, which was held by Mariadas Kagithapu MSFS , Archbishop of Visakhapatnam, and Marampudi Joji , Archbishop of Hyderabad , attended over 20,000 believers, including 700 priests and 1,500 nuns.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church mourns India's first dalit prelate ( Memento of August 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), UCAN, August 19, 2009
  2. ↑ Eluru's Bishop Mulagada is no more ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , indiancatholic.in, August 18, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.indiancatholic.in
  3. ↑ Twenty thousand people say farewell to Mgr Mulagada, India's first Dalit bishop , AsiaNews.it, August 19, 2009
predecessor Office successor
--- Bishop of Eluru
1976-2009 		Jaya Rao Polimera
personal data
SURNAME Mulagada, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian bishop
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Parripadu , Andhra Pradesh, India
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2009
Place of death Vijayawada , Andhra Pradesh, India