Ref: CBCI-Gen/Cir-01/2019                                                                                                      2^nd January 2019

    Appointment of Apostolic Administrator Sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the Diocese of Srikakulam.

Your Eminence, Your Beatitude, Your Excellency, Your Grace, Your Lordship,

In the light of the Communication received from the Apostolic Nunciature, I wish to inform you that His Holiness, Pope Francis has appointed His Grace Most Rev. Prakash Mallavarapu, Metropolitan Archbishop of Visakhapatnam, as Apostolic Administrator Sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the Diocese of Srikakulam.

The announcement took place in Rome on Wednesday, 2^nd January, 2019.

Let us entrust to the intercession of the Virgin Mary the Episcopal ministry of the Apostolic Administrator.

Assuring you of my prayers,

Yours Sincerely in Our Lord,

Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas SFX

Secretary General, CBCI