Oscar Sevrin [SEP] date of death
Oscar Sevrin
Oscar Sevrin, 22nd November 1884 in Neuville-Wanne (Belgium) - 30th April 1975 in Kunkuri, (India), was a Belgian Jesuit priest, missionary in India and successively bishop of Ranchi (Jharkhand) and Raigarh-Ambikapur (Chhattisgarh).
Religious formation and early years in India.
Born in Neuville-Wanne, in the Ardennes (Belgium) on 22 November 1884, Sevrin joined the Society of Jesus in 1903 and did his novitiate in Arlon (Belgium) After doing his philosophical
by both the professors and seminarians for his studies and humble behaviour.
He successfully completed two years of philosophy and four years of theology studies at the seminary and, on 6 June 1946, was ordained a diocesan priest at St. Mary's Cathedral, Ranchi, by Jesuit Bishop Oscar Sevrin.
In 1947, newly consecrated Bishop Lawrence Leo Graner, C.S.C., of the Diocese of Dhaka, sent Father Ganguly to the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, for higher studies in philosophy. First, he completed his M.A. in