St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Hyderabad
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St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Hyderabad, Pakistan is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hyderabad, 1040 kilometers south of the Capital Islamabad
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Father Francis Kotwani, the first Sindhi to be ordained a Catholic priest, served as assistant parish priest of the cathedral parish. He completed 50 years as a priest in 1994.
Bishop Max John Rodrigues
of Hyderabad appealed for people to pray for the country at the end of Mass at the Cathedral. The special service was being offered following a declaration of a state of emergency and a rash of arrests in the country in November 2007.
Islamabad
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...
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Father Francis Kotwani, the first Sindhi to be ordained a Catholic priest, served as assistant parish priest of the cathedral parish. He completed 50 years as a priest in 1994.
Bishop Max John Rodrigues
Max John Rodrigues
Max John Rodrigues was born in Karachi, Pakistan on 29 May 1938. He entered the seminary in 1957 and spent seven years of his priestly formation at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome. He was ordained a priest by Pope Paul VI at St. Peter's Basilica on 6 January 1966...
of Hyderabad appealed for people to pray for the country at the end of Mass at the Cathedral. The special service was being offered following a declaration of a state of emergency and a rash of arrests in the country in November 2007.