Alphonsus Mathias

Alphonsus Mathias (22 June 1928 – 10 July 2024) was an Indian Roman Catholic archbishop of the archdiocese of Bangalore.

Biography
Mathias was ordained a priest on 24 August 1954 and was appointed the bishop of the Diocese of Chikmagalur on 16 November 1963. The Apostolic Internuncio in India James Knox consecrated him on 5 February of the next year as bishop ; co-consecrators were Albert Vincent D'Souza, Archbishop of Calcutta, and Raymond D'Mello, Bishop of Allahabad.

Mathias attended the Second Vatican Council. On 12 September 1986, he was appointed Archbishop of Bangalore, a role in which he served until he resigned on 24 March 1998. He was the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India from 1989 to 1994.

Mathias died on 10 July 2024, at the age of 96.