{{Short description|Indian Catholic prelate (1936–2017)}} {{For|the Portuguese futsal player|Ivan Almeida Dias}} {{Use Indian English|date=October 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]] | name = Ivan Cornelius Dias | honorific_suffix = [[Doctorate in canon law|JCD]] | title = Prefect of the [[Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples]] | image = Ivan-Dias-3-mini.png | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | church = {{ubl | [[Catholic Church]] | [[Latin Church]]}} | archdiocese = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay|Bombay]] | province = | metropolis = | diocese = | see = | term_start = 20 May 2006 | term_end = 10 May 2011 | predecessor = [[Crescenzio Sepe]] | successor = [[Fernando Filoni]] | opposed = | other_post = Cardinal priest of [[Spirito Santo alla Ferratella]] <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 8 December 1958 | ordained_by = [[Valerian Gracias]] | consecration = 19 June 1981 | consecrated_by = [[Agostino Casaroli]] | cardinal = 21 February 2001 | created_cardinal_by = [[Pope John Paul II]] | rank = [[Cardinal priest]] <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = Ivan Cornelius Dias | birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|4|14|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Bandra]], [[Bombay]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|6|19|1936|4|14|df=y}} | death_place =[[Rome]], [[Italy]] | buried = [[Campo Verano]] | resting_place_coordinates = {{Coord|41.9015|N|12.5203|E|}} | nationality = Indian | religion = [[Roman Catholic]] | residence = | parents = {{unbulleted list|Carlo Nazaro Dias|Maria Martins Dias}} | previous_post = {{unbulleted list | Titular Archbishop of Rusibisir (1981{{nbnd}}1996) | [[Apostolic Pro-Nuncio]] to Ghana, Togo and Benin (1981{{nbnd}}1986) | [[Apostolic Nunciature to Korea|Apostolic Nuncio to Korea]] (1986{{nbnd}}1991) | [[Apostolic Nunciature to Albania|Apostolic Nuncio to Albania]] (1991{{nbnd}}1996) | [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay|Archbishop of Bombay]] (1996{{nbnd}}2006) }} | occupation = | profession = | education = | alma_mater = [[St. Stanislaus High School]], Mumbai | motto = {{langnf|la|Servus|Servant|break=yes}} | signature = File:Ivan Cardinal Dias.jpg | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Ivan Dias.svg | coat_of_arms_alt = }} {{Infobox Cardinal styles | name= Ivan Cornelius Dias | dipstyle= [[His Eminence]] | offstyle=[[His Eminence|Your Eminence]] | relstyle= [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|Cardinal]] | See=Bombay ([[Emeritus]])| | image = Coat of arms of Ivan Dias.svg | image_size = 200px }} {{Ordination | ordained deacon by = | date of diaconal ordination = | place of diaconal ordination = | ordained priest by = [[Valerian Gracias]] | date of priestly ordination = 8 December 1958 | place of priestly ordination = | consecrated by = [[Agostino Casaroli]] | co-consecrators = {{ubl | [[Achille Silvestrini]], | [[Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy]]}} | date of consecration = 19 June 1982 | place of consecration = [[St. Peter's Basilica]], [[Vatican City]] | elevated by = [[Pope John Paul II]] | date of elevation = 21 February 2001 | sources = | bishop 1 = [[Oswald Gracias]] | consecration date 1 = 16 September 1997 | bishop 2 =Percival Joseph Fernandez | consecration date 2 = 21 April 2001 | bishop 3 =[[Agnelo Rufino Gracias]] | consecration date 3 = 21 April 2001 | bishop 4 = [[George Antonysamy]] | consecration date 4 = 21 September 2005 | bishop 5 = António Francisco Jaca, S.V.D. | consecration date 5 = 22 July 2007 | bishop 6 = [[Yves Marie Monot]] | consecration date 6 = 7 September 2008 }} '''Ivan Cornelius Dias''' (14 April 1936 – 19 June 2017) was an Indian prelate and [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] of the [[Catholic Church]]. He was Prefect of the [[Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples]] from 2006 to 2011, Archbishop of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay|Bombay]] from 1996 to 2006, and before that a [[Nuncio|papal ambassador]] in the [[Balkans]], [[East Asia]], and [[West Africa]]. He was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Indian Cardinal Ivan Cornelius Dias dies – UCA News|url=https://www.ucanews.com/news/indian-cardinal-ivan-cornelius-dias-dies/79551|access-date=2020-06-04|website=ucanews.com|language=en}}</ref>
==Biography==
===Early life and ordination=== Ivan Dias was born in [[Bandra]], a suburb of [[Mumbai|Bombay]], to Carlos Nazaro Dias (d. 1953) and Maria Martins e Dias (d. 1991), both natives of [[Goa]]. Dias' ancestral village is Velsao, [[Salcete]], Goa. His father was [[undersecretary]] of the Home Department of the [[government of Maharashtra]].<ref name=midday>{{cite news|date=4 April 2005|work=Mid-day.com|title=I am upset at the media hype|url=http://www.cardinalrating.com/cardinal_26__article_1073.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003003741/http://www.cardinalrating.com/cardinal_26__article_1073.htm|archive-date=3 October 2009}}</ref> The second oldest of five children, he has four brothers: [[Francis Dias|Francis]] (a retired [[lieutenant general]] in the [[Indian Armed Forces|Indian military]]), Ralph, Paul and Olaf (a doctor). After graduating from the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[St. Stanislaus High School]], he entered the [[seminary]] of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay|Archdiocese of Bombay]] and was later [[Holy Orders|ordained]] to the [[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|priesthood]] by [[Valerian Gracias]] on 8 December 1958.<ref name=hierarchy>{{cite news|work=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|title=Ivan Cardinal Dias|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdiasi.html}}</ref> He then did pastoral work in Bombay as [[curate]] at St. Stephen's Church until 1961, when he was sent to Rome to further his studies. He there attended the [[Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy]] and the [[Pontifical Lateran University]], from where he obtained a [[Doctor of Canon Law|doctorate in canon law]] in 1964.<ref name=miranda>{{cite news|work=Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church|title=DIAS, Ivan|url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios-d.htm#Dias|last=Miranda|first=Salvador|access-date=11 July 2009|archive-date=2 September 2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000902000629/http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-d.htm#Dias|url-status=live}}</ref>
=== Secretariat of State === Dias worked in the [[Secretariat of State (Holy See)|Vatican Secretariat of State]] preparing the 1964 visit of [[Pope Paul VI]] to India, during which he was raised to the rank of [[Monsignor|Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness]] on 4 December.<ref name=miranda/> From 1965 to 1973, he served as secretary of the [[Apostolic Nunciature|nunciatures]] in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Indonesia, Madagascar, [[Réunion]], the [[Comoro Islands]] and Mauritius. Returning to the Secretariat of State in Vatican City, he was head of the section for the [[Soviet Union]], the [[Baltic states]], Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria, China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya and Tanzania until 1981.<ref name=miranda/>
===Nuncio and bishop=== On 8 May 1981, Dias was appointed [[Titular bishop|Titular Archbishop]] of ''Rusibisir'' and [[Nuncio|Apostolic Pro-Nuncio]] to Ghana, Togo and Benin by [[Pope John Paul II]]. He received his [[Bishop (Catholic Church)|episcopal consecration]] on the following 19 June from Cardinal [[Agostino Casaroli]], with Archbishops [[Achille Silvestrini]] and [[Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy]] serving as [[Consecrator|co-consecrators]], at [[St. Peter's Basilica]].<ref name=hierarchy/> He selected as his episcopal [[motto]]: ''"Servus"'' ([[Latin]]: "Servant").<ref name=asianews>{{cite news|date=3 October 2005|work=Asia News|title=Card. Ivan Dias|url=http://www.cardinalrating.com/cardinal_26__article_2154.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003020353/http://www.cardinalrating.com/cardinal_26__article_2154.htm|archive-date=3 October 2009}}</ref> Dias was later named Apostolic Nuncio to [[Korea]] on 20 June 1986, and [[Nunciature to Albania|Apostolic Nuncio to Albania]] on 28 October 1991. In Albania, he was charged with rebuilding the [[Roman Catholicism in Albania|local church]] after nearly five decades of communist [[Socialist People's Republic of Albania|rule]], inviting foreign [[Catholic missions|missionaries]] to the country and working with the [[Politics of Albania|Albanian government]] to recover Catholic churches and [[Catholic school|schools]].<ref name=cns>{{cite news|date=1 April 2005|work=[[Catholic News Service]]|title=Variety of experience gives cardinal from India high profile|url=http://www.catholicnews.com/jpii/cardinals/0501844.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050406210108/http://www.catholicnews.com/jpii/cardinals/0501844.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 April 2005}}</ref>
===Archbishop=== Recalled from the Vatican's diplomatic service, Dias was appointed the ninth [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay|Archbishop of Bombay]] on 8 November 1996.<ref>{{cite news | work = L'Osservatore Romano | access-date = 15 August 2019 | url = http://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/cardinal-ivan-dias-bombay-passes-away | title = Cardinal Ivan Dias of Bombay passes away | date= 20 June 2017}}</ref> He was an outspoken supporter of the controversial 2000 document of the [[Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith]] ''[[Dominus Iesus]]'', which declared that non-Catholics "are in a [[Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus|gravely deficient situation]] in comparison with those who, in the Church, have the fullness of the means of salvation."<ref name=dominus>{{cite news|date=6 August 2000|work=[[Holy See]]|title=Dominus Iesus|url=https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000806_dominus-iesus_en.html}}</ref> Dias said the document was "a reaffirmation...[that] Jesus is the only savior of the world. We have a right to say who we are, and others can accept it or not."<ref name=cns/>
===Cardinal=== [[John Paul II]] appointed him [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal-Priest]] of [[Spirito Santo alla Ferratella]] in the [[Papal consistory|consistory]] of 21 February 2001.<ref name=miranda/> He was shortly afterwards named to the Council of Cardinals for the Study of the Organizational and Economic Problems of the Holy See on 10 March 2001, and served as one of the three presidents at the 10th Ordinary Assembly of the [[Synod|World Synod of Bishops]] from September to October 2001.<ref name=miranda/>
In 2003, he delivered the [[homily]] at the [[beatification]] [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]] of [[Mother Teresa]], whom Dias had befriended during his tenure as a nuncio in Albania; he once said, "Reaching out to our fellow human beings, embracing the poor as Mother Teresa did, must become a common service for every Christian."<ref name=asianews/> Lamenting the domination of the world "by information technology, by [[New Age]] teaching and by the decline of ethical values," Dias once stated that entire countries are being "crushed down by [[Atheism|godless]] ideologies and enticing proposals that exalt the anti-God cultures, including the [[Culture of life|culture of death]]."<ref name=cns/> He was one of the Cardinals considered ''[[papabile]]'' at the [[Papal conclave, 2005|2005 Papal conclave]] that selected [[Pope Benedict XVI]]. [[Time (magazine)|''TIME'' Magazine]] noted his "[s]trong diplomatic experience" and said his election "would represent a bold choice from the developing world."<ref name=time>{{cite magazine|date=17 April 2005|magazine=Time|title=Our Top Ten Papal Candidates|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1045517,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050406021107/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1045517,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 April 2005|last=Israely|first=Jeff}}</ref>
On 20 May 2006, he was appointed [[Prefect]] of the [[Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples]], the top post overseeing the [[Catholic missions]]. He was also ''[[ex officio]]'' the [[Chancellor (education)|Grand Chancellor]] of the [[Pontifical Urbaniana University]]. He presented his resignation as required on reaching the age of 75. It was accepted on 10 May 2011 when he was succeeded as Prefect by [[Fernando Filoni]].<ref>{{cite news | work = National Catholic Register | access-date = 21 June 2017 | url = http://m.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/benedict-xvi-makes-two-key-vatican-appointments#.WUrvN0gpDYU | title = Benedict XVI Makes Two Key Vatican Appointments | first = Edward | last = Pentin | date = 10 May 2011}}</ref>
Cardinal Dias was a member of the [[Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith]], the [[Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments]], the [[Congregation for the Oriental Churches]], the [[Congregation for Catholic Education]], the [[Pontifical Council for Culture]], the [[Pontifical Council for the Laity]], the [[Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity]], the [[Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue]], the [[Pontifical Council for Social Communications]], the [[Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church]] and the [[Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts]].{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}
Dias was one of the [[Cardinal electors in Papal conclave, 2013|cardinal electors]] who participated in the [[Papal conclave, 2013|2013 papal conclave]] that selected [[Pope Francis]].<ref>{{cite news | work = Rome Reports | access-date = 19 June 2017 | date = 19 June 2017 | title = Cardinal Ivan Dias passes away in Rome | url = http://www.romereports.com/2017/06/19/cardinal-ivan-dias-passes-away-in-rome }}</ref>
Dias died in Rome on 19 June 2017.<ref>{{cite news | title = Former archbishop of Bombay Ivan Dias passes away in Rome | access-date = 19 June 2017 | date = 19 June 2017 | url = https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/former-archbishop-of-bombay-ivan-dias-passes-away-in-rome/articleshow/59223433.cms | work = The Times of India | first = Bella | last = Jaisinghani }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Experienced diplomat, Indian Cardinal Dias dies at 81 | first = Carol | last = Glatz | url = https://www.ncronline.org/person/ivan-dias | access-date = 21 June 2017 | agency = Catholic News Service | date= 20 June 2017}}</ref>
==Views==
===Anti-Christian violence=== During his tenure as Archbishop, Dias frequently condemned [[Anti-Christian violence in India|anti-Christian discrimination]] in Indian society by [[Hindu nationalism|Hindu fundamentalists]]. In December 2001, he invited leaders of all Bombay's religious communities to his home for "a meeting for peace in a world torn apart by war and hatred."<ref name=cns/> In 2002, he denounced pressures put by Indian authorities on Catholic schools, which have "had to put up with uncooperative and abusive public officials as well intimidation."
===Abortion and homosexuality=== Dias also established himself as [[Conservatism|theologically conservative]], strongly maintaining the Church's stances against abortion and homosexuality.<ref name=express>{{cite news|date=13 April 2005|work=The Indian Express|title=Our cardinal in the Vatican|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/68253/}}</ref><ref name=npr>{{cite news|date=19 April 2005|publisher=[[NPR]]|title=Potential Successors to Pope John Paul II|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4570955|last=Bradley Hagerty|first=Barbara}}</ref> He believed that gays and lesbians could be "[[Ex-gay|cured]]" of their "unnatural tendencies" through the [[Sacrament of Penance (Catholic Church)|Sacrament of Penance]].<ref name=cns/>
===Anglican communion=== During a speech he gave at the [[Lambeth Conference]], he expressed unrestrained disapproval of the changes the Anglican communion was experiencing. He said: "When we live myopically in the fleeting present, oblivious of our past heritage and apostolic traditions, we could well be suffering from spiritual Alzheimer's. [...] or ecclesial Parkinson's".<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/23/anglicanism.religion |title=Cardinal accuses Anglican Communion of 'spiritual Alzheimer's' | access-date = 19 June 2017 | date = 23 July 2008 | last = Butt | first= Riazat | work = The Guardian}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons}} *[http://www.archbom.org/ Archdiocese of Bombay] *[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdiasi.html Catholic-Hierarchy.org] [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]] *[http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/JohnPaulII/transition/CardinalsDias.asp Article at AmericanCatholic.org]
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