Church leaders in Assam on April 21 mourned the death of Father Varghese Kizhakkevelil, who had played a key role in nurturing Guwahati archdiocese and other dioceses in the northeastern Indian state. “The Archdiocese of Guwahati is what it is because of him,” Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil, the archdiocese’s first prelate, told Matters India mourning the death of his former vicar general.