Samson Shukardin was born on 29 January 1961, in Hyderabad. After schooling at St Bonaventure's High School in Hyderabad and at Government Boys College he entered the Order of
Friars Minor in August1987.
In 1992 Samson Shukardin graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Sindh University , Jamshoro , and later earned a degree in Theology at the National Catholic Institute of Theology in Karachi. In 1998 he completed a degree in Civil Law studies at the Sindh Muslim Law College .
Shukardin was ordained a priest on 10 December 1993.
Since then he has served from 1993-1996 as assistant priest in Gujrat , Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi; from 1996-2004 as Procurator of the Franciscan Province; from 2004-2008 as Guardian of the Franciscan Order and President of the Conference of Major Superiors of Pakistan;
since 2008 as pastor of St. Elizabeth Church in Hyderabad, and Diocesan Director of the National Commission for Justice and Peace. Since 2010, he has been the Vicar General of the Diocese of Hyderabad.
On 16 December 2014 Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Max John Rodrigues in accordance with canon 401 § 1 of the Code of Canon Law. The Pope then appointed Shukardin as
the new bishop of the diocese. [2]
Shukardin was consecrated bishop on 31 January 2015. The principal consecrator was Max John Rodrigues, Bishop Emeritus of Hyderabad, while the co-consecrators were Archbishop Joseph Coutts of Karachi and Archbishop Sebastian Francis Shaw of Lahore and presently working as Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Hyderabad
