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 4th 1937 and was ordained priest
in 1961. He was appointed auxiliary Bishop in 1982 and appointed Bishop of Islamabad
Rawalpindi on 28th 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.