Gallela Prasad

His Excellency
Gallela Prasad
Bishop of Cuddapah
Church Roman Catholic
See Cuddapah
Appointed 31 January 2008
Predecessor D. M. Prakasam
Orders
Ordination 1 March 1989
by Matthew Cheriankunnel
Consecration 1 March 2008
by Marampudi Joji
Personal details
Born 7 April 1962
Adoni, Andhra Pradesh
Previous post Professor of Christian Doctrine, St. John's Regional Seminary, Kothavalasa

Gallela Prasad (born 7 April 1962) is an Indian prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as the Bishop of the Cuddapah, Andhra Pradesh, since 2008.

He is well versed in Latin as well as Telugu and English.

Biography

Prasad was born the fourth and youngest child in a family of teachers in Adoni in Andhra Pradesh. Smt. Mariamma and Sri Jojappa were his parents. He went to school in his hometown and later attended St. Pius Minor Seminary in Kurnool[1][2]

He studied philosophy at St. John's Regional Seminary, Kondadaba, Visakhapatnam,[1] and then theology at the St. John's Regional Seminary in Ramanthapur, Hyderabad.

On 1 March 1989, Prasad was ordained a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Kurnool by Bishop Matthew Cheriankunnel.[1] After his ordination, Prasad served as a Youth Services Director of the diocese of Kurnool from 1989 to 1993[1] as well as a warden for St. Mary's Junior College, Kurnool. from 1989 to 1990.

From 1990 to 1995, he was a parish priest in Koilakunta.[1][3] He also served as Spiritual Director of the Legion of Mary from 1993 to 1995.[1]

From 1995 to 1999 Prasad studied in Rome at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas Angelicum where he earned a Doctorate of Sacred Theology degree.[2] His thesis was entitled Christian Charity as Witnessed by Mother Teresa of Calcutta.[4] On returning to India in 1999, he was Pastor in St. John's Church, Uppaladadiya[3] till 2000.[1] From 2000 to 2004 he served as a pastor in the Diocese of San Angelo, Texas, U.S.[1]

In 2004, he was made Spiritual Director and Professor of Christian Doctrine in the St. John's Regional Seminary (Philosophate) in Kothavalasa, Visakhapatnam.[1]

Pope Benedict XVI appointed Prasad Bishop of Cuddapah on 31 January 2008.[2] He was consecrated on 1 March 2008 at the St. Mary's Old Cathedral Grounds, Mariapuram, Cuddapah,[5] by Marampudi Joji, Archbishop of Hyderabad, with Kagithapu Mariadas, Archbishop of Visakhapatnam and the D. M. Prakasam, Bishop of Nellore as co-consecrators. Almost all the Catholic Bishops of the Andhra region took part in the consecration. Among the ecumenical invitees was K. B. Yesuvaraprasad, the Church of South India's Bishop of Rayalaseema.[6] He chose as his episcopal motto Ego sum Pastor bonus or "I am the good shepherd".

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Kurnool Vani, Newsletter of the Kurnool Diocese, Volume XXI, Number 3, March 2008
  2. 1 2 3 Vatican Radio, The voice of the Pope and the Church in dialogue with the world, 31 January 2008
  3. 1 2 Amruthavani Communications Centre, Hyderabad, Brief History of the Diocese of Kurnool
  4. ↑ Gallela Prasad, Christian Charity as Witnessed by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, 1999.
  5. ↑ "Prasad sworn in as Kadapa Bishop". The Hindu. 2 March 2008. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  6. ↑ Anglican Communion diocese page for Rayalseema
Religious titles
Preceded by
D. M. Prakasam		 Bishop of Cuddapah
31 January 2008 – present		 Succeeded by
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