ASIA/INDIA – Appointment of coadjutor bishop of Darjeeling

Vatican City – On November 29, 2025, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Edward Baretto, of the clergy of the diocese of Darjeeling, India, until now director of the Divya Vani Pastoral Centre, as coadjutor bishop of the same diocese.
Msgr. Edward Baretto was born on 5 January 1965 in Nirkan, in the diocese of Mangalore, India. He studied philosophy and theology at the Morning Star Regional Seminary in Calcutta. He was awarded a master’s degree in philosophy at the Jnana Deepa Institute of Philosophy and Theology in Pune and a licentiate in canon law at Saint Peter’s Pontifical Institute in Bangalore.
He was ordained a priest on 25 March 1993 for the diocese of Darjeeling.
He has held the following offices: deputy director of Saint John XXIII Minor Seminary in Darjeeling ; professor at the Morning Star Regional Seminary in Barrackpore ; judicial vicar of the diocese of Darjeeling ; professor at the Saint John XXIII Minor Seminary ; chargé at Our Lady of Lourdes, Liza Hill Tea Garden ; parish priest of Mary Mother of God in Kalimpong ; judicial vicar and judge of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal ; parish priest of Saint Paul in Tadong ; and to date, director of the Divya Vani Pastoral Centre in Darjeeling.

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