Most Rev. John Barwa SVD

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Archbishop John Barwa, S.V.D. is the serving Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar.

Archbishop Barwa was born in Gaibira, Odisha, India, on 1 June 1955. He holds a licentiate in Liturgy from the Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm. He was ordained a Catholic priest of the Society of the Divine Word on 14 April 1985.

He was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Rourkela in 2006 and ordained a Bishop in April 2006 by Telesphore Toppo. He succeeded as a bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rourkela in  April 2009. He was appointed Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar in February 2011. (Collected from the public domain)

 

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