Albert Conrad De Vito, OFMCap was an Italian Capuchin friar, who was installed as the first Bishop of Lucknow in December 1946.

He was appointed first Bishop of the new Diocese of Lucknow on 12 December 1946. he was consecrated on 16 February 1947, the governor of U.P., Sir Francis Wylie extended full support and also attended the consecration and played an important role in the festivities that followed.

He founded Anand Bhawan School and Institute of the Maids of the Poor in Barabanki city.

[1] When he came back to Bologna he founded the Casa della formazione for young people who didn’t have a stable future.

Seven years after his death, Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, requested and obtained permission for his remains to be laid to rest in the Cathedral of St. Joseph at Lucknow which he himself had promoted.