Bishop Thomas Aquinas Lephonse

Bishop of Coimbatore, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Mar 1953		Born
22 May 1980	27.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Vellore, India
10 Jul 2002	49.3	Appointed	Bishop of Coimbatore, India
28 Aug 2002	49.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Coimbatore, India

MicroData Summary
Thomas Aquinas Lephonse
Bishop Thomas Aquinas Lephonse
(born 6 Mar 1953)
Bishop of Coimbatore

Ad Limina - June 2011: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Pillaithope

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Coimbatore.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Ambrose Mathalaimuthu †
Bishop Emeritus of Coimbatore
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop James Masilamony Arul Das †
Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)
Bishop Malayappan Chinnappa, S.D.B.
Bishop of Vellore

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Ambrose Mathalaimuthu † (1971)
Bishop Emeritus of Coimbatore
Archbishop Justin Diraviam † (1967)
Archbishop of Madurai
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Soundaraj Periyanayagam, S.D.B. † (2006)
Bishop Peter Abir Antonysamy (2014)
Bishop Ambrose Pitchaimuthu (2024)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2422049

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 168, Number 14,243

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