William Leonard D'Mello [SEP] position held
William Leonard D'Mello
William Leonard D'Mello (24 March 1931 – 19 July 2011) was the first Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Karwar, India.
Born in Mangalore and ordained to the priesthood in 1957, D'Mello was named bishop of the Karwar Diocese in 1976 and retired in 2007.
Early life.
D'Mello was born on March 24, 1931, at Cascia, the third of six children born to Joseph and Santana D'Mello.
Bishop of Karwar.
On January 24, 1976
. in Linguistics in 1973, and his Ph.D in Linguistics in 1982. While receiving his PhD at Columbia, he was trained by William Diver, founder of the Columbia School of Linguistics, and William Labov, founder of variationist sociolinguistics. During a Fulbright Fellowship tenure which lasted from 1974-1975, Leonard studied at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. He held a position as a Research Associate at the Institute of African Studies. His other training includes Advanced Linguistics Training at the Linguistic Society Institute, and Leonard studied