[1][2][3][4][5] (12 July 1951 – 10 October 2019[6]) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shillong and the Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nongstoin, India.
Jala was ordained a Catholic Priest for the Salesians of Saint John Bosco congregation on 19 November 1977.
[citation needed] Jala was appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shillong, India on 22 December 1999 and ordained a Bishop on 2 April 2000.
He was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nongstoin, India on 15 October 2016.
[9][10] Archbishop Jala died in an automobile accident, on 10 October 2019, in Colusa County, California, U.S.[11]