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‘I am a person with great hope’: Meet the Church’s only Bhutanese priest

At World Youth Day, the world's only Bhutanese priest

Filipe d’Avillez
Aug 03, 2023
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Fr. Kinley Tshering is the world’s first — and so far only — Bhutanese Catholic priest.

The Jesuit priest serves a community of 100 converts in the kingdom nestled in the Eastern Himalayas, between India and China.

Fr. Kinley Tshering, S.J. Screenshot from @nithildennis2776 YouTube channel.

In Bhutan, a country with a population of fewer than 800,000 peopl…

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