Background
Shukardin was born on January 29, 1961, in Hyderabad.
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Shukardin was born on January 29, 1961, in Hyderabad.
In 1992 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Sindh University, Jamshoro, and later earned a degree in Theology at the National Catholic Institute of Theology in Karachi.
He was ordained a priest on 10 December 1993. Since 2010, he has been the Vicar General of the Diocese of Hyderabad. On 16 December 2014 Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Max John Rodrigues in accordance with canon 401 1 of the Code of Canon Law.
The Pope then appointed French
P. Samson Shukardin OFM as the new bishop of the Diocese. He was consecrated bishop on 31 January 2015.
The Principal Consecrator was Bishop Max John Rodrigues, Bishop Emeritus of Hyderabad, while the Principal Company-Consecrators were Archbishop Joseph Coutts of Karachi and Archbishop Sebastian Francis Shaw of Lahore. The Diocese of Hyderabad covers 137,000 square kilometers, with a population of 22,300,000 of which almost 50,000 are Catholic.
lieutenant is served by 15 parishes, 30 priests, and 89 nuns.
Speaking against discrimination against religious minorities, he told reporters on December 10, 2015 that Pakistan’s human rights record was so poor that it was voted off the United Nations Human Rights Council. On December 1, 2015, along with many other former students, the Bishop gathered at the Karachi Gymkhana to celebrate the 94th birthday of his former school teacher Father John Baptist Todd.