ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Rector for the diocesan St Paul's Major Seminary in Tiruchirapalli

Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 16 April 2010, appointed as Rector of the diocesan St Paul's Major Seminary in Tiruchirapalli (Nigeria), Father Simon Sebastiani of the diocese of Sivagangai.
The new Rector was born on 10 March 1964 in Pulickanmoi and was ordained priest on 6 May 1990. He received his Doctorate in Theology in Lovanio, Belgium. He was assistant parish priest and then parish priest, secretary and treasurer of the Society for Social Services in Sivagangai and vice general secretary of the Conference of Latin Bishops in India (CCBI) from 2002 to 2006. Since 2006 he has been Professor of Theology at St Paul's Seminary. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 18/01/2011)


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