Pope Francis on November 9 accepted the resignation of Jesuit Archbishop William D’Souza of Patna.
This led to the automatic elevation of Coadjutor Archbishop Sebastian Kallupura as Patna’s metropolitan archbishop.
This was made public at 4:30 pm in India, says a press release from the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), the national body of the Latin rite bishops in the country.

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