Media Release
Udupi, Jan 17: Fr. Dominic Mendonca OP has been elected as the Rector of St. Charles Seminary, Nagpur. He hails from Shankerpura (Pangala) but presently lives at Ashoknagar. He comes from a family of eleven children out of which four are priests and three are nuns. Fr. Dominic has been the Provincial of the Dominicans of India until recently. He is also a lecturer in Sacred Scripture having done his licentiate at Biblicum in Rome and in Jerusalem, and his Doctoral studies in Munich, Germany. He will take over as the new Rector of the seminary from the new academic year, June 2009.
St. Charles Seminary is an Inter-Diocesan Seminary which belongs to the Archdiocese of Nagpur and under the care of the Dominican Priests of India. It was in 1959 that the Irish Dominicans came to India to take charge of the seminary built by His Grace Mgr. Eugene D’Souza, the then Archbishop of Nagpur. This November the Seminary and the Dominican Province of India will be celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the presence of Dominican at St. Charles Seminary. The seminary has formed more than thousand Priests and 9 Bishops. Presently there are over 300 Seminarians coming from about 40 Dioceses of North and Central India and from some religious congregations.