Alan Basil de Lastic (24 September 1929 – 20 June 2000) was a prominent Catholic (Latin Rite) clergyman in India who was installed as the fourth Archbishop of Delhi in November 1990.
[2] He was of mixed Burmese, Irish and French ancestry, with his grandparents on his father's side coming from Bourg-Lastic in France, but he always considered himself wholly Indian.
[4] de Lastic completed his secondary education in Patna, then moved to Calcutta where he spent five years studying marine engineering.
[2] He went to Rome, where he completed his doctorate in dogmatic theology, and then spent a year at University College Dublin in Ireland, returning to India in the early 1960s.
In addition to over 70 bishops, 400 priests and hundreds of nuns the funeral was attended by representatives of Bahais, Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and Zoroastrians.
By the late 1990s, Archbishop Alan de Lastic, John Dayal and a few other clergy and lay leaders had become the voices of the Indian Christian Community.