On this day Paul Goethals, a Jesuit priest from Belgium, became the first archbishop of Calcutta.
Goethals arrived in Calcutta as the Vicar Apostolic in 1878. After the Catholic hierarchy was established in India in September 1886, Goethals was appointed the first archbishop of Calcutta.
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He would develop the Catholic Church establishment in eastern India. Several religious congregations arrived in India and opened religious missions and educational and medical institutions during this period.
After he died in 1901, the archdiocese of Calcutta built Goethals Memorial School, a boarding school for boys in Kurseong, in north Bengal, in his memory.
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