Bangalore 5 August 2020 (CCBI) Fr. Duming Gonsalves (47) currently the Executive Secretary to the CCBI Commission for Catechetics is appointed as the Administrator of Shanti Sadan, the CCBI Secretariat Extension, Benaulim, Goa. He will take charge on 1 October, 2020 and replace Rev. Dr. Ayres Fernandes. The CCBI Commissions for Family, Liturgy and Catechetics operates from Shanti Sadan. The Secretariat Extension in Goa was inaugurated on 6 January, 2020.
Fr. Duming was born on 22 September 1973, Madgeri, Karnataka. After his school studies from Ave Maria HS School in Sirsi he joined Indore diocesan minor seminary. He studied philosophy in Jnana Deep Vidya Peed, Pune and theology from Khrist Premalaya, Ashta, Madhya Pradesh. He was ordained priest on 5 May 2006. He had masters in theology with specialization in catechetics from Kristu Jyoti College, Bangalore. He served as an assistant parish priest at St. Francis Assisi Cathedral and St. Theresa’s Church Pushpanagar. As parish priest at Nirmal Rudai Church, Khategaon and St. Joseph Church, Nandanagar. He also served the dioceses as manager St. Joseph School, Nandanagar, Indroe, Dean of Indore diocesan deanery and Director of Commission for Catechetics of the Indore diocese.
The CCBI has six Secretariat buildings in India, Suvarta Kendra, Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh is the Secretariat of the CCBI Commission for Proclamation. Bethania, Faridabad, New Delhi is the CCBI Youth Commission Secretariat, the PMO Office, Ulsoor, Bangalore, is the Secretariat of the Pontifical Mission Organisation (PMO) and the Secretariat for the Commission for Migrants is located at Mayapuri, New Delhi. The Headquarters of the CCBI is the CCBI Centre, Bangalore from where the Deputy Secretary General and two other Commission Secretaries operates.
There are 16 Commissions and 3 Departments under the CCBI where 23 personnel are working as Executive Secretaries or Directors. The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) is canonically the National Episcopal Conference for the Latin Church. It is the largest Bishops Conference in Asia and the fourth largest in the world. It consists of 132 dioceses with 192 bishops.
Rev. Dr. Stephen Alathara
Deputy Secretary General, CCBI