Evarist Pinto was educated at St Thomas High School, Goa, India.
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Evarist Pinto continued his religious training at the Christ the King Seminary in Karachi, where he was ordained a priest on 6 January 1968.
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Evarist Pinto is fluent in 10 languages including English, Urdu, Punjabi, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, German, French and Konkani.
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Father Pinto taught Sacred Scripture at Christ the King Seminary and from 1987 to 1993 was pastor of St Lawrence's Church, Karachi.
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Evarist Pinto obtained a doctorate in biblical theology at the Urbanian University, Rome, and a master's degree in sacred scripture at the "Biblicum".
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Evarist Pinto became Archbishop of Karachi on 5 January 2004 on the retirement of the incumbent Archbishop Simeon Anthony Pereira.
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Evarist Pinto selected as his motto "Preach the Good News to the Poor".
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Archbishop Evarist Pinto represented the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Pakistan at the Synod.
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In July 2011, Evarist Pinto attended the ground-breaking ceremony for the new St John Marie Vianney Church in St Paul's Parish, Azam Basti.
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On 25 January 2012, Archbishop Evarist Pinto resigned after reaching the age of 75.
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Evarist Pinto is the author of 31 books in English and many of these have been translated into Urdu.