Background
Moras, Bernard Blasius was born on August 10, 1941 in Kuppepadavu, India.
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Moras, Bernard Blasius was born on August 10, 1941 in Kuppepadavu, India.
The Bishop chose as his episcopal motto: "In Thee We Hope–Mary Our Mother.".
Born in Kuppepadavu, Mangalore, Karnataka, he was ordained to the priesthood on 6 December 1967. During his priestly ministry, he was very involved with health care. On 30 November 1996, Moras was appointed Bishop of Belgaum by Pope John Paul World War II He was consecrated on 25 February 1997 by Cardinal Simon Pimenta, with Bishops Aloysius Doctorate"Souza and Ignatius Pinto serving as co-consecrators.
Moras was later named Archbishop of Bangalore on 22 July 2004, being installed as such on the following 17 September.
The installation, attended by no less than three cardinals, was held under tightened security, as Catholic Kannadigas have been insistent upon having a bishop from their own community to the point of violence. Pope Benedict XVI bestowed the pallium, a woolen garment reserved to metropolitan archbishops, upon him on 29 June 2005.
In 2006, Moras condemned Dan Brown"s novel The Da Vinci Code as "vicious" and "diabolic". Archbishop Moras also chairs the Pastoral Commission for Health of the Catholic Bishops" Conference of India and is the Ecclesiastical Advisor to the Catholic Health Association of India.
Moras takes part in the documentary The Indian Priest about Indian missionary priest Raphael Curian from 2015.