Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, Ofm, of South Africa said that there were a number of elements missing from Africa in the Synod document.
Msgr. Hippolytus Kunnunkal Ofm Cap., was consecrated as its first bishop on June 29,
1986 in Rome and was installed as bishop on September 07, 1986 in the newly consecrated St. Mary's Cathedral, Jammu.