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Rev. Fr. Fredrick
D'Souza
Rev. Fr. Fredrick Peter D’souza,
(fondly known as Fr. Freddy), who was born on 23rd October, 1967 is the third
sibling in a family of five children to Savera and Severine D’souza, hailing from Vorkady, in Mangalore, India.
After completing his 10th grade in the year 1986,
he was influenced during a retreat in his local church and readily decided to
join the seminary. Fr. Fredrick was in Goa for a year, Mangalore for the next
four and then in Bangalore and Mysore for his major
studies in Philosophy and Theology before returning back to Mangalore again.
He was ordained a priest on 20th December, 1998
in his own parish at Vokady, Mangalore and he had
the privilege of celebrating is first mass on Christmas Eve of that year.
His first assignment was in Mangalore, rendering his services as a formation
teaching the seminarians to become priests in the various centers such as
Mangalore, Farangipet, Bangalore and Raichur
where he served for long eleven years in the capacity of Director, Training
Students.
On 15th November, 2005 he landed in Dubai
to represent the biggest challenge in the vast multi-cultural parish in the
Emirate, which was a wonderful experience for him to be.
Fr. Fredrick a priest for 12 years loves teaching and has a passion for
service, especially the youth. His hobbies being basketball, football, throw
ball and has a few good moves on the dance floor too.
As we welcome Fr. Fredrick, to our parish we wish him all the blessings and
love of the Almighty and pray that he will have a wonderful pastoral service
in this large parish of ours in this Kingdom of Bahrain.
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