Bishop from India Visits Utah

Courtesy photo/Father Penugonda Jaya Kumar

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Shown from left are Fr. Penugonda, Bishop Solis, Bishop Polimera and Fr. Paulraj Rayappa, another priest originally from India who is assigned to hospital ministry at the University of Utah Primary Children?s Hospital and the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City. Bishop Polimera presented Bishop Solis with a shawl, a customary gift that is a sign of respect.

The Most Rev. Jaya Rao Polimera, Bishop of Eluru, India, visited the Diocese of Salt Lake City in August. While in Utah, he celebrated Mass at the Cathedral of the Madeleine and met with Bishop Oscar A. Solis and several priests of the diocese. He also had a pastoral visit with one of the priests from his own diocese, Father Penugonda Jaya Kumar, now parochial vicar of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Orem. Shown from left are Fr. Penugonda, Bishop Solis, Bishop Polimera and Fr. Paulraj Rayappa, another priest originally from India who is assigned to hospital ministry at the University of Utah Primary Children’s Hospital and the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City. Bishop Polimera presented Bishop Solis with a shawl, a customary gift that is a sign of respect.