Celebration for the twenty-fifth anniversary of Father Binay Kumar Guria’s ordination, Sunday, March 1, 2026, during the 10:00 a.m. Mass in the parish of Gesù Nazareno in Turin.
Durante la concelebrazione con il Superiore Generale della Congregazione, padre Sergio La Pegna, il parroco di Gesù Nazareno, padre Andrea Marchini, alcuni confratelli dottrinari appositamente giunti a Torino, e circondato da molti parrocchiani e amici, padre Binay ha ricordato come ha scoperto la fede da adolescente e come ha maturato la vocazione che lo ha portato all’ordinazione il 24 febbraio 2001.
Father Binay was born on January 19, 1972, in Gutuhatu, a village in the Ranchi District of India, and was introduced to the Christian faith as a teenager in the parish of Torpa, thanks to an elderly priest who began to speak to him about Christians and Jesus. After his baptism, his spiritual director introduced him to Father Luciano Mascarin, then Superior General of the Congregation, who was establishing the Doctrinaries’ presence in India, first for about a year with Father Ottorino Vanzaghi and then continuously with Father Paolo De Leo, in the 1990s.
Father Binay Kumar Guria and Father Gregory Jojo were the first Indian doctrinaries. After studying theology and philosophy in Rome from 1992 and completing pastoral training in the parish of Vigevano, Father Binay began his pastoral ministry in Ranchi, where he served until 2005, after being ordained on February 24, 2001, in the parish of Torpa by the then bishop of the diocese of Khunti, Most Rev. Stephen Tiru.
After two more years in Rome at Santa Maria in Monticelli in 2007, Father Binay returned to Ranchi, where he was head of the Diocesan Catechetical Office until 2012. Since 2019, he has been with the community of Jesus of Nazareth, where he is now parish vicar.
During the March 1st celebration, Father Andrea Marchini read the message of Pope Leo XIV, who wished Father Binay that his ministry would continue “to be an icon of the face of Christ,” while Father Sergio La Pegna, referring to the Gospel of the Transfiguration from the Second Sunday of Lent, wished Father Binay to be able to exclaim in times of difficulty, “How beautiful, Lord, to be here,” “like Peter; and to remember the exhortations in the readings: “Go from your country,” so true in Binay’s life, and the Father’s admonition to the three disciples: “Listen to him,” because this is the priestly mission: to ensure that through the Word each person can discover the face of God.
At the beginning of the celebration, Father Binay, thanking the parish community of Jesus of Nazareth, recalled how “the Mass we celebrate today is also a thanksgiving for my vocation.” At the end, he shared with all present the story of his discovery of Jesus as a young teenager.
A community celebration in the parish courtyard and the oratory concluded the day of celebration.
A moment of Father Binay's ordination
L'ordinazione di padre Binay, con il vescovo di Khunti, mons. Stephen Tiru, p. Paolo De Leo e l'allora Superiore Generale dei Dottrinari padre Luciano Mascarin
Father Binay between his mother and the bishop, near Father Luciano
After his ordination, Father Binay in the parish of Torpa
Father Binay during the celebration (ph. Giacomo Motta)
Father Binay incenses the altar (ph. Giacomo Motta)
A moment of the concelebration (ph. Giacomo Motta)
Father Binay talks about his vocation (ph. Giacomo Motta)
The Elevation
