Jesuit priest Bishop Linus passes away – Times of India

Kolkata: Jesuit priest Bishop Linus Nirmal Gomes, who would have turned 100 in September, breathed his last in the wee hours of Saturday.
He was the parish priest of St Teresa Church in Moulali for 20 years and was also the founder of St Peter’s High School, both under the archdiocese of Calcutta. Bishop Linus, as he was lovingly called, breathed his last at 3am. His funeral will take place on Monday at 3pm at the Baruipur Cathedral.
The archdiocese has announced that it will be a private funeral which will be live-streamed for the thousands of people, who loved Bishop Linus dearly, said Dominic Gomes, vicar general of the archdiocese.
He was the first Bishop of Baruipur Catholic Diocese, when this new diocese was formed, bifurcating from Calcutta Archdiocese in 1977. He remained Bishop there for 18 years.
As Bishop Emeritus, he was sent to Dhaka, Bangladesh to serve the Jesuit mission from 1997 to 2014. He spent his last seven years at St Xavier’s College Jesuit community as the senior most clergy.
He was born in a village near Dhaka on September 7, 1921 and completed his school education there. He joined St Xavier’s College, Kolkata in 1942 and stayed in the College hostel. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1942. Along with some other Jesuit priests he established the first Bengali medium school of the Catholic order, St Peter’s High School at Taltala, Kolkata and became its first headmaster.