Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru

Mangaluru, Sep 13: Fr Melwyn Joseph Pinto has been appointed rector of St Aloysius Institutions.

He will take the mantle from Fr Dionysius Vas, who has been serving as rector of St Aloysius Institutions since 2016.

Born in 1963, Fr Melwyn Pinto completed his school and college education from St Aloysius and joined the Jesuit order on June 20, 1981.

He holds an MA in English, masters in education and a diploma in psychology and counselling, besides a diploma in school administration.

He was ordained Jesuit priest on April 14, 1997. He served as headmaster at St Joseph's primary school and high school in Hassan between 1996 and 1999, before founding St Joseph's Indian PU College and serving as its principal until 2007.

He served as headmaster of St Aloysius High School, Mangaluru from 2007 to 2011 and as principal of St Joseph's PU College, Hassan till 2012.

Fr Melwyn Pinto has also worked with the Vatican communications and radio, Rome, on its English desk for Asia and Indian languages.

He served as superior and director of Fatima Retreat House, Valencia for a period of two years from May 2017, before being appointed as superior of Dharwad's Jesuit study home 'Vidyaniketan', his current post.