Bengaluru, India. Student Nathaniel Rayappa, CMF was ordained a priest on 26 January 2019 at the Sacred Heart Parish in the Village of Silvepura in the hands of Msgr. Bernard Blasius Moras, Bishop Emeritus of Bangalore. He will practice his priestly ministries in the Province of Santiago where he is incardinated. He had his First Mass at the same church on the next day.
Present during the celebrations were Frs. José Antonio Serrano and Juan José Raya, CMFF in the name of the Provincial Superior of Santiago. Some thirty members of the Province of Bangalore as well as its Provincial, and the faithful of the village were also present.