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{{Infobox Christian leader
| type             = Bishop
| honorific_prefix = Bishop
| name             = M. John, [[Roman Catholic missionaries in India|RCM]]
| honorific_suffix = ''Ayyagaru''
| title            = 1st Bishop in [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Eluru|Eluru]]
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| church           = Roman Catholic
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| diocese          = [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Eluru]]
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| predecessor      = ''Position created''
| successor        = P. Jaya Rao, RCM
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| ordination       = 4 January 1965
| ordained_by      = Joseph Baud, [[Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales|MSFS]]
| consecration     = 5 May 1977
| consecrated_by   = [[Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy|D. S. Lourdusamy]], RCM (Principal consecrator)
*[[Samineni Arulappa|S. Arulappa]], RCM (Co-consecrator)
*G. Ignatius, [[Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales|MSFS]] (Co-consecrator)
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| birth_name       = John Mulagada
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|df=yes|1937|12|12}}
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| birth_place      = Marriveedu, erstwhile [[East Godavari district]] ([[Madras Presidency]])
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2009|08|16|1937|12|12}}
| death_place      = [[Eluru]], erstwhile [[West Godavari district]] ([[Andhra Pradesh]])
| buried           = Eluru
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| occupation       = Priest
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| education        =[[Bachelor of Theology|B. Th.]] ([[St. John's Regional Seminary|St. John's]])
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*St. Anthonys High School, Visakhapatnam
*St. Peters Minor Seminary, Cuddapah 
*[[St. John's Regional Seminary]], Nellore/Hyderabad
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'''John Mulagada''' (12 December 1937 – 16 August 2009) was the Indian Roman Catholic bishop of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Eluru]], India. Ordained to the priesthood on 4 January 1965, [[Pope Paul VI]] appointed Mulagada the first bishop of the newly created Eluru Diocese and he was ordained Bishop on 5 May 1977.<ref>{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bmulagada|Bishop John Mulagada|21 January 2015}}</ref> Bishop Mulagada was the first [[Dalit]] to become bishop in India.<ref>http://new.asianews.it/index.php?I=en&art=16103 {{Dead link|date=March 2022}}</ref>

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[[Category:20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in India]]


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