Mangalore, December 16: Archbishop Ambrose Madtha, the Papal Nuncio to Ivory Coast, was laid to rest at the Holy Redeemer Church, Belthangady, about 70 km from Mangalore, on Saturday.
Archbishop Madtha died in a road accident in Ivory Coast on December 8 while travelling from d'Odienne Diocese after a priestly ordination.
Nuncio of India Most Rev Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio was the male celebrant at the funeral while Bishop of Mangalore Diocese Rev Aloysius Paul D'Souza offered tributes to the departed soul.
Charles Koffi Diby, the minister of foreign affairs of Ivory Coast, Archbishop Most Rev Bernard Moras of Bangalore, Most Rev Oswald Lewis the Bishop of Jaipur, Most Rev Gerald Lobo, Bishop of Udupi, Monsignor Denis Moras Prabhu, Vicar General of the Diocese of Mangalore and 11 delegates from Ivory Coast attended the funeral.
The mortal remains of Madtha arrived in a special flight at the Mangalore International Airport and were later taken to Belthangady. The flight was delayed for nearly 24 hours due to technical snag. The Pope and the secretary of state of Vatican Cardinal Tarcisio Bartone had sent condolence messages to the family members of Madtha.
M. Veerappa Moily, Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, expressed condolence on “the sad and untimely death of the archbishop”.
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