Twenty Five Franciscan Capuchin Brothers belonging to four jurisdictions, namely Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa and North India were ordained deacons by the Bangalore archbishop His Grace Bernard Moras on 3rd July, 2009 at Darshan Institute of Theology, Kengeri, Bangalore. The ceremony lasted for more than three hours. A large congregation along with the parents and relatives of the brothers was present on the occasion.

In his homily, the archbishop instructed the deacons on the need of becoming holy priests. He found it very auspicious to have ordained twenty five brothers as deacons in the year dedicated to priests. The archbishop said that it was for the first time that he was ordaining twenty five brothers.

After the Eucharist, there was a short felicitation program for the newly ordained deacons.