PANAJI
The Society of the Missionaries of St Francis Xavier (Society of Pilar) had 19 new priests ordained across India in the month of May for the Society.
With these ordinations, the Society of Pilar has 383 priests. Compared to other Religious Orders, the number of priests is very less, however, the seemingly insignificant number of priests, are serving in over 120 communities spread in 41 dioceses across India and abroad.
From the 19 newly ordained, 8 were ordained in Goa, namely, Jackson Lawrence from Caranzalem, Inacio D’Souza from Salvador do Mundo, Clinton Fernandes from Vasco, Mcsteein Oliveira from Loutolim, Leonray De Mello from Thivim, Venito Colaco from Velim, Eric Mascarenhas from Mapusa and Nevil Fernandes from Agonda.
There were four ordinations held in Karnataka. Nelson Rebeiro, Maflin Lobo and Parel Philip Fernandes were ordained on May 4 while Nelson Rodrigues was ordained on May 10.
On May 8, Xavier Soreng was ordained at the Islands of Andaman and Nicobar.
In Jharkhand, Suman Indwar was ordained on May 8 while Vijay Linda was ordained on May 15.
Tamil Nadu also witnessed three ordinations. M A Peter Raja and R Maria Selvan were ordained on May 7 while Stalin A was ordained May 10.
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