Bengaluru, March 25, 2023: Metropolitan Archbishop of Bengaluru, Most Rev. Dr. Peter Machado conferred diaconate ordination on ten seminarians belonging to the congregation of Clerics Regular of Somasca at St. Thomas Forane Church, near Dairy Circle.
His Grace the Archbishop presided over the Holy Eucharist and officiated the rite of the diaconate and ordained these seminarians to the order of the diaconate.
Rev. Fr. José Antonio Nieto Sepúlveda, CRS, the Superior General of the Congregation, Rev. Fr. Lourdu Mariah, CRS, the Provincial Superior, Rev. Fr. Prabhakar, CRS, the Superior and other Somascan and Archdiocesan priests concelebrated the Eucharist.