Gilbert Blaize Rego

Gilbert Blaize Rego (3 September 1921 – 21 June 2012) was an Indian Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was ordained as a priest at 32 years of age in 1953, and he served for 18 years before being ordained as a bishop of the Diocese of Shimla-Chandigarh, India at age 50, in 1971. As a new bishop, his presence was needed in the new city of Chandigarh when he undertook the decision to shift the residence from the headquarters of Shimla to Chandigarh, even though it lacked a physical church. Rego fulfilled the holy orders, representing the catholic church in its doctrines as he shepherded the new flocks. He sanctified the congregation, while he also governed and administered in church planting and missionary fields through his support and assistance to missionary groups under his pastoral guidance until the age of 78, when he retired in 1999.

Rego was seen as a bishop of the masses, a missionaries bishop dedicated himself to the church and the poor. In his retirement at the Clergy Home, Mumbai, the bishop Emeritus, suffered from Alzheimer's disease until his death at the age of 90 in 2012.