Background
Costa was born in Gazipur, Bangladesh.
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Costa was born in Gazipur, Bangladesh.
He was ordained as a priest on 21 December 1963. He was appointed the Bishop of Rajshahi on 11 January 1996, and was ordained on 26 April of the same year. On 9 July 2005 he was appointed the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Dhaka by Pope Benedict XVI, replacing the deceased Archbishop Michael Rosario.
Archbishop Costa retired on October 22, 2011, and was succeeded by former coadjutor of the position Patrick Doctorate"Rozario.
He died at 3.30 pm on January 3, 2015 in Dhaka of a heart attack.