UDUPI
Former Vicar General of Udupi Diocese Msgr Baptist Menezes passed away on Wednesday. He was 75.
Fr Baptist Menezes is a native of Our Lady of Health Church at Shirva. He was born on July 28, 1948 and was ordained a priest for the diocese of Mangalore on October 25, 1974. He has a doctorate in moral theology from the Lateran University in Rome.
After being an Assistant Parish Priest at the Most Holy Redeemer Church at Agrar and Assistant Director at St Antony’s Charitable Institutions at Jeppu, Mangaluru, he was deputed for higher studies in moral theology to Rome in 1977 and on completion of his doctoral studies in 1982, he joined the staff of St Peter’s Pontifical Seminary at Bengaluru, which he served till 1994.
Thereafter, he was appointed Administrator of St Joseph’s Inter-diocesan Seminary at Jeppu, Mangaluru in 1995 and Director of Father Muller Charitable Institutions in 1997, the post he held till 2007. He was appointed the Episcopal Vicar of the Diocese of Udupi by the Bishop of Mangaluru on July 6, 2007, an office he shouldered till Udupi was canonically erected into a new Diocese on October 15, 2012.
He was appointed the first Vicar General of the new Diocese of Udupi on December 14, 2012.
