Evarist Pinto is the former archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan.
He was born on 31 December 1933 in Goa, Portuguese India, and educated at St. Thomas High School, Goa, India. In 1960 he started studying for priesthood at the St. Pius X Minor Seminary in Quetta. He continued his religious training at the Christ the King Seminary in Karachi, where he was ordained a priest on 6 January 1968.
Father Pinto taught Sacred Scripture at Christ the King Seminary and from 1987 to 1993 was pastor of St. Lawrence’s Church, Karachi.
He obtained a doctorate in biblical theology at the Urbanian University, Rome, and a master's degree in sacred scripture at the "Biblicum". On 17 February 2000, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Karachi by Pope John Paul II. He became Archbishop of Karachi on 5 January 2004 on the retirement of the incumbent Archbishop Simeon Anthony Pereira. The seat of the Archdiocese of Karachi is at Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Karachi.
In the 12th General Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops that took place in Rome from 5–26 October 2008, Archbishop Pinto represented the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Pakistan.
Archbishop Pinto resigned after reaching the age of 75 on 25 January 2012. After retirement, Archbishop Pinto spends much of his time writing books on Catholicism many of which have been translated into Urdu. (Collected from public domain)
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