Anil Joseph Thomas Couto is the serving archbishop of the Archdiocese of Delhi.
He was born on 22 September 1954 in Pomburpa, Goa. Anil received his primary education at a Government Primary School and St. Elizabeth's High School in Pomburpa, Goa.
He did his ecclesiastical studies at the Seminary of Our Lady at Saligao and his philosophical studies at the Patriarchal Seminary at Rachol in Goa. Completed Master of Theology Degree in Ecumenism at Vidyajyoti and acquired his Doctorate in Ecumenical Theology at St. Thomas Aquinas Pontifical University (Angelicum), Rome.
He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Delhi in February 1981. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Delhi and Titular Bishop of Cenculiana in January 2001. He was transferred as Bishop of Jalandhar in February 2007. Earlier he had served as the Rector of the Delhi Archdiocesan Minor Seminary, ‘Vinay Gurukul’, in Gurgaon and the Rector of 'Pratiksha', a Major Seminary, in Delhi.
He was appointed the Archbishop of Delhi in December 2012. He is the ecumenism chairman of the Conference of the Catholic Bishops of India. He is a member of the Commission for Inter-Religious Dialogue of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI). (Collected from the public domain)
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