Type: | Bishop |
Honorific Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Pius Thomas D'Souza | |
Honorific Suffix: | DCanL |
Bishop Emeritus of Ajmer | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Archdiocese: | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agra |
Diocese: | Roman Catholic Diocese of Ajmer |
See: | Ajmer |
Term Start: | 19 January 2013 |
Term End: | 1 June 2024 |
Predecessor: | Bishop Ignatius Menezes |
Successor: | vacant |
Ordination: | 28 March 1982 |
Consecration: | 19 January 2013 |
Consecrated By: | Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio |
Rank: | Bishop |
Birth Name: | Pius Thomas D’Souza |
Birth Date: | 1954 5, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Bantwal, Karnataka, India |
Nationality: | Indian |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
Alma Mater: | Pontifical Urban University |
Motto: | Put To Serve |
Pius Thomas D'Souza | |
Dipstyle: | The Most Reverend |
Offstyle: | Your Grace |
Bishop Pius Thomas D'Souza is bishop emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ajmer, India.[1] [2] [3] [4] He resigned on 1 June 2024.
Pius Thomas D'Souza was born in Agrar, Mangalore, India on 4 May 1954. He completed his doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Urban University, Rome.[5]
Pius was ordained a priest on 28 March 1982 for the diocese of Lucknow initially but later he was Incardinated to the diocese of Bareilly, India on 19 January 1989.[6]
He was Appointed Bishop of Ajmer on 3 November 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI and consecrated by Salvatore Pennacchio on 19 January 2013[7] [8] at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral.[9] [10]