New Bishop for the Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi (Pakistan)

(February 18, 2010) A new Bishop has taken over the Leadership of Pakistan’s diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi. Bishop Anthony Rufin, coadjutor of the same diocese, succeeds Monsignor Joseph Anthony Theodore Lobo, from February 18, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Bishop Anthony Lobo who has stepped down on health grounds. Bishop Lobo was born on July 4^th 1937 and was ordained priest in 1961. He was appointed auxiliary Bishop in 1982 and appointed Bishop of Islamabad Rawalpindi on 28^th of May 1993. Bishop Rufin Anthony was Born in Khushpur, Pakistan, on 12 February 1940. He completed his primary and secondary school in Khushpur. He received his religious training at the St. Pius X Minor Seminary in Quetta and the Christ the King Major Seminary, Karachi and was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Faisalabad on 29 June 1969. He also studied at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, where he obtained a Licentiate in Spirituality. He was the former vicar general of Faisalabad diocese and was appointed coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi on August 4, 2009.