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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian Catholic bishop (born 1967)}}<br />
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| name = John Rodrigues<br />
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| title = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay|Archbishop of Bombay]]<br />
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| see = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay|Bombay]]<br />
| appointed = 30 November 2024<br />
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| parents = Stanley Rodrigues (father)<br/>Corinne Rodrigues (mother)<br />
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| alma_mater = St Pius X College Mumbai<br />
| motto = Building Up The Body of Christ<br />
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| co-consecrators = [[Filipe Neri Ferrão]]<br />[[Agnelo Gracias]]<br />
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'''John Rodrigues''' (born 21 August 1967) is an Indian prelate of the Catholic Church who is the Archbishop of Bombay. He was coadjutor archbishop of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay|Archdiocese of Bombay]] from 30 November 2024 to 25 January 2025. He was [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Poona|Bishop of Poona]] from March 2023 to November 2024, and before that served as an auxiliary bishop of Bombay for ten years.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
John Rodrigues was born on 21 August 1967 in an east indian family in the [[Bandra]] suburb of [[Mumbai]].<ref name=BombayAux>{{cite web | access-date = 1 December 2024 | website = Archdiocese of Bombay | url = https://www.archdioceseofbombay.org/bishop-john-rodrigues | title = Auxiliary Bishop John Rodrigues | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240910175026/https://www.archdioceseofbombay.org/bishop-john-rodrigues | archive-date=10 September 2024 | url-status= live}}</ref> He and his two older brothers became priests, one of them a Jesuit.<ref>{{cite news | access-date = 30 November 2024 | work = Matters India | url = https://mattersindia.com/2023/03/pune-diocese-gets-new-bishop/| date = 26 March 2023 | title = Pune Diocese Gets New Bishop }}</ref> Their father Late Stanley Rodrigues died in 1975 and they were raised by their widowed mother Corinne, who was a leader of the Marriage Encounter movement with her husband and founded a charity to support widows.<ref>{{cite news | access-date = 30 November 2024 | url = https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Mumbai:-Corinne-Rodrigues,-a-widowed-mother-who-inspired-the-vocation-of-three-children-40137.html | work = Asia News | title = Mumbai: Corinne Rodrigues, a widowed mother who inspired the vocation of three children | first = Nirmala | last = Carvalho |date = 8 March 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | access-date = 1 December 2024 | url = https://www.livingfaith.in/faith/vocation-to-priesthood-inspiration-and-mystery/ | work = Living in Faith | date = 18 January 2018 | title = Vocation to priesthood – inspiration and mystery | first = Binu | last = Alexander }}</ref> John Rodrigues earned a bachelor of science degree in physics at [[Mumbai University]] and a bachelor's in philosophy and theology at St. Pius X College in [[Goregaon]], a Mumbai suburb.<ref name=vatbio1/> One of his seminary teachers was [[Oswald Gracias]], later Cardinal Archbishop of Bombay.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=3 December 2024 | url = https://www.archdioceseofbombay.org/post/a-message-from-h-e-oswald-cardinal-gracias-november-30-2024 | title = A message from H.E. Oswald Cardinal Gracias - November 30, 2024 | website = Archdiocese of Bombay | date = 30 November 2024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20241203150027/https://www.archdioceseofbombay.org/post/a-message-from-h-e-oswald-cardinal-gracias-november-30-2024 | archive-date = 3 December 2024 | url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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He was [[Ordination|ordained]] a priest on 18 April 1998. Following ordination he served for a year as assistant priest at St. Michael's in Mahim and then for a year as assistant to the archbishop. He spent the next two years studying in Rome, earning a licentiate in systematic theology at the [[Pontifical Lateran University]] in 2002. Returning to Mumbai, he taught systematic theology at St Pius X College from 2002 to 2011, serving also as the school's group moderator from 2003 to 2013 and dean of studies from 2011 to 2013. He was named rector of the college, but served only a few weeks before being named a bishop. Alongside his academic work, he served the archdiocese as secretary of the priests council from 2010 to 2013 and as coordinator for the Year of Faith in 2012/13.<ref name=BombayAux/><br />
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[[Pope Francis]] named him auxiliary bishop of Bombay on 15 May 2013.<ref name=vatbio1>{{cite press release | url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2013/05/15/0299/00680.html| date = 15 May 2013| access-date = 30 November 2024 | publisher = Holy See Press Office | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 15.05.2013 | language = it }}</ref> He received his episcopal consecration on 29 June 2013<ref name=vatbio/> from Cardinal [[Oswald Gracias]], with co-consecrators [[Filipe Neri Ferrão]], Archbishop of Goa e Daman, and Agnelo Rufino Gracias, Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay.{{cn|date=December 2024}} He chose as his episcopal motto "Building Up The Body of Christ".<ref name=BombayAux/> At the end of his term as auxiliary he headed the deaneries for Bandra and Borivali and rector of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount in Bandra.<ref name=BombayAux/><br />
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Pope Francis appointed him bishop of Poona on 25 March 2023.<ref name=vatbio2>{{cite press release | url =https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2023/03/25/230325b.html| date = 25 March 2023 | access-date = 30 November 2024 | publisher = Holy See Press Office | title = Resignations and Appointments, 25.03.2023 }}</ref> He was installed there on 24 May.<ref>{{cite news | work = Times of India | access-date = 30 November 2024 | url = https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/john-rodrigues-is-new-bishop-of-poona-diocese/articleshow/100489417.cms | title = John Rodrigues Is New Bishop Of Poona Diocese | date = 25 May 2023 | first = Steffy | last = Thevar}}</ref><br />
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Pope Francis named him coadjutor archbishop of Bombay on 30 November 2024.<ref name=vatbio>{{cite press release | url =https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2024/11/30/241130e.html | date = 30 November 2024 | access-date = 30 November 2024 | publisher = Holy See Press Office | title = Resignations and Appointments, 30.11.2024 }}</ref> He succeeded as archbishop when Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal Gracias on 25 January 2025.<ref>{{cite press release | date = 25 January 2025 | access-date = 25 January 2025 | publisher = Holy See Press Office | title = Resignations and Appointments, 25.01.2025 | url =https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2025/01/25/250125f.html }}</ref><br />
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