Cardinal Oswald – New President of CCBI

February 09, 2013: The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), celebrating its Silver Jubilee at Vailankanni, has elected new office bearers. The current Plenary Assembly elected Oswald Cardinal Gracias, Archbishop of Mumbai as the new President. Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao of Goa and Bishop Varghese Chakkalakkal of Calicut who were both re-elected as Vice-President and Secretary respectively for the consecutive second term of office.
It is very special and historical for Cardinal Oswald, who has been elected for a second time as the chief among the Bishops of the Roman Latin Church in India and he is also the present President of the CBCI, besides being the Secretary General of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conference (FABC).