What is Ivan Dias?
[[File:Ivan-Dias-3-mini.png|thumb|right|200px|Dias in March 2014]] '''Ivan Dias''' (14 April 1936 – 19 June 2017) was an [[India]]n [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. He was born in [[Bandra]], a suburb of [[Mumbai|Bombay]]. Dias was Prefect of the [[Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples]] from 2006 to 2011, having served as [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay|Archbishop of Bombay]] (1996–2006) and [[Nuncio|papal diplomat]] in the [[Balkans]], [[East Asia]], and [[West Africa]].<ref name=express>{{cite news|date=13 April 2005|work=Indian Express|title=Our cardinal in the Vatican|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/68253/}}</ref> He was elevated to the [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinalate]] in 2001. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons-inline}} *[http://www.archbom.org/ Archdiocese of Bombay] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070406202243/http://www.archbom.org/history.htm |date=2007-04-06 }} *[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdiasi.html Career highlights at Catholic-Hierarchy.org] *[http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/JohnPaulII/transition/CardinalsDias.asp Article at AmericanCatholic.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303205130/http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/JohnPaulII/transition/CardinalsDias.asp |date=2016-03-03 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dias, Ivan}} [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church]] [[Category:People from Mumbai]] [[Category:Roman Catholic archbishops]] {{bio-stub}}