Father Pinto was born on Nov. 3,1944 in Gokak Falls, India. He was ordained a Roman Catholic Priest on December 21, 1969, in India. After arriving in Canada in 1979 he resided at St. Boniface Parish, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mission, B.C. was his home from 1983 to app. 1990, where he was the Priest and counsellor for the Mission Institution. Father Pinto then went to Miami to attend University and returned to Winnipeg to work at the prison there. In 1995 he went to St. Vincent’s in New York and worked as a clinical councilor and helped thousands of children and young adults find their way to God and to a more stable life. In January of 2019, he retired and moved back to BC and resided in Abbotsford.
Father Pinto was a man who devoted his life to God and to helping others through his counselling and spiritual guidance. He was highly educated and earned several degrees dealing
with the psychological and wellbeing of others. He was fluent in many languages, which he said helped him communicate and strive to help as many people as he could throughout his lifetime. His calm and gentle nature, along with his words of wisdom and comfort would stop anyone in their path resulting in an experience to the listener like no other. He loved to travel the world and meeting different people and to engage in their native language, making the shyest of persons open up to his boastful and energetic greeting and always bringing a smile to each and every one that he met.
Father Pinto is survived by his brother - Mike, sisters, Apolonia, Antoinette Sequeira, and Hilda and many more relatives in Winnipeg and India. Also, by his dear friends Wayne and Patsy Raiche and family of Mission, BC and Michele Martin of Abbotsford, BC and the many fellow clergyman and friends he met over the years.
As per his request, Father Pinto shall be cremated and then laid to rest at St. Boniface Diocese in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Father Pinto…we will miss your smile, we will miss your laugh, we will miss your guidance, we will miss your stories, but most of all we will miss your kind and gentle nature that touched the hearts and lives of so many people all over this world and we, and God, all knew how much you tried to help each and every one of us --WE KNEW…
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