Anthony Theodore Lobo
Anthony Theodore Lobo ( born July 4, 1937 in Karachi, † February 18, 2013 in Rawalpindi ) was bishop of Islamabad - Rawalpindi.
Life
Anthony Theodore Lobo, son of a family of the Portuguese colony of Goa, nor moved before separation by the independence of Pakistan after Karachi. He attended the Principal of St. Lawrence's Boys School in Karachi, then the renowned and oldest school of Karachi, St. Patrick's High School. He entered the Christ the King Seminary in Karachi and received on 8 January 1961, the ordination. After work in the Archdiocese of Karachi Lobo studied in the years of the Second Vatican Council at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and later at the University of Karachi and Harvard University. He was rector of St. Lawrence's Boys School in Karachi and later at St. Patrick's High School in Karachi.
Pope John Paul II appointed him auxiliary bishop on June 8, 1982 in Karachi and Titular Bishop of Oescus. The Archbishop of Karachi, Joseph Marie Anthony Cardinal Cordeiro, donated to him on 1 October of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Emanuele Gerada, Apostolic Pro- Nuncio to Pakistan, and John Joseph, Auxiliary Bishop of Faisalabad.
On 28 May 1993 he was appointed bishop of Islamabad - Rawalpindi. His resignation was by Pope Benedict XVI. granted on February 18, 2010.
Work
Lobo was involved in the formation and education in Pakistan. In 1986 he founded the St. Michael 's Convent School. In his diocese Islamabad - Rawalpindi, he established 70 schools as well as the Sargodha Institute of Technology (SIT). He initiated in 2008 a partnership between the Notre Dame Institute of Education and the Australian Catholic University.
Lobo was chairman of the Education Commission of the Bishops' Conference of Pakistan and Chairman of the Office of Education of the Federation Of Asian Bishop's Conference. He was a member of the Senate of Sindh University, Khairpur, Shah Abdul Latif and the University, Jamshoro.
He published numerous works on education and in 1990 awarded by the President of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif with the " The President's Pride of Performance."
Anthony Theodore Lobo was the patron of Shahbaz Bhatti, a Pakistani politician from Punjab who was the first Christian minister for minorities, but was murdered two years later because of his commitment to greater religious tolerance of a faction of the Tehrik -i - Taliban Pakistan ( TTP).
Following a meeting with Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Catholic Community of Sant'Egidio, he committed himself to Sant'Egidio in Pakistan.