Who is nepal's first bishop?

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Who is nepal's first bishop?

Answer 1

Twenty-one years ago, Amulya Nath Sharma spent Easter in a Kathmandu police station for preaching before a gathering that also included Hindu relatives of churchgoers. Now, with the world’s only Hindu kingdom becoming a secular state, he will lead Nepal’s growing Christian community as the country’s first bishop.

Earlier this month, Pope Benedict XVI elevated Nepal from a prefecture to a vicariate and named Father Anthony Francis Sharma as the kingdom’s first bishop.

Sharma, 69, will be ordained at an official ceremony in Kathmandu on May 5.

It is a moment of exultation for Nepal’s Christian community which, till 1990s, faced prison for proselytising. Conversion was a punishable offence in Nepal till last April, when a revolt forced King Gyanendra to step down as the head of the government and the newly-restored parliament declared Nepal a secular state.

Answer 2

AMULYA NATH SHARMA  is Nepal's first Bishop..

Sharma, 69, embraced Christianity at the age of four when his mother, converted in India's Assam state. He will be ordained at an official ceremony in Kathmandu on May 5 when he will be sworn in by the Pope's representative, Papal nuncio papal Pedro Lopez Quintana, in a ceremony to be also attended by the archbishops of Patna and Bagdogra from India.

Pope Benedict XVI elevated Nepal from a prefecture to vicariate and named Father Anthony Francis Sharma as the kingdom's first bishop.

Answer 3

Father Anthony Francis Sharma (birth name: Amulya Nath Sharma) is now Nepal's first bishop!