Archbishop Kagithapu Mariadas, M.S.F.S. †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Visakhapatnam, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Sep 1936		Born
5 Jun 1958	21.7	First Vows	Member of Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales d’Annecy
10 Jun 1961	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales d’Annecy
19 Dec 1974	38.2	Appointed	Bishop of Guntur, India
5 May 1977	40.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Guntur, India
10 Sep 1982	46.0	Appointed	Bishop of Visakhapatnam, India
26 Jan 1983	46.3	Installed	Bishop of Visakhapatnam, India
16 Oct 2001	65.1	Appointed	Archbishop of Visakhapatnam, India
3 Jul 2012	75.8	Retired	Archbishop of Visakhapatnam, India
26 Feb 2018	81.4	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Visakhapatnam, India

MicroData Summary
Kagithapu Mariadas
Archbishop Kagithapu Mariadas M.S.F.S.
(born 7 Sep 1936, died 26 Feb 2018)
Archbishop Emeritus of Visakhapatnam

Ad Limina - May 2011: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Visakhapatnam, Diocese of Vizagapatnam
Ordained Bishop Visakhapatnam, Diocese of Visakhapatnam
Death Place St. Joseph's, Hospital, Visakhapatnam, Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam

a priest for 56.7 years
a bishop for 40.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy †
Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Saminini Arulappa †
Archbishop of Hyderabad
Bishop Ignatius Gopu, M.S.F.S. †
Bishop of Visakhapatnam

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy † (1962)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore
Archbishop Ambrose Rayappan † (1953)
Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore
Archbishop Auguste-Siméon Colas, M.E.P. † (1930)
Archbishop of Pondicherry
Archbishop Élie-Jean-Joseph Morel, M.E.P. † (1909)
Titular Archbishop of Cotrada
Bishop Hugues-Madelain Bottero, M.E.P. † (1899)
Bishop of Kumbakonam
Archbishop Joseph-Adolphe Gandy, M.E.P. † (1883)
Archbishop of Pondicherry
Bishop François-Jean-Marie Laouënan, M.E.P. † (1868)
Titular Bishop of Flaviopolis
Bishop Etienne-Louis Charbonnaux, M.E.P. † (1845)
Titular Bishop of Iasus
Bishop Clément Bonnand, M.E.P. † (1833)
Titular Bishop of Druzipara
Bishop Louis-Charles-Auguste Hébert, M.E.P. † (1811)
Titular Bishop of Halicarnassus
Bishop Paolo Antonio Roviglia, O.C.D. † (1808)
Titular Bishop of Sura
Bishop Antonio Ramazzini, O.C.D. † (1795)
Titular Bishop of Antiphellus
Bishop Luigi Pianazzi, O.C.D. † (1785)
Titular Bishop of Usula
Bishop Pierre Brigot, M.E.P. † (1757)
Titular Bishop of Thabraca
Bishop Juan de La Fuente Yepes † (1755)
Bishop of Nueva Segovia
Bishop Manuel de Matos, O.F.M. Disc. † (1754)
Bishop of Nueva Caceres
Archbishop Manuel José Rubio y Salinas † (1749)
Archbishop of México, Federal District
Bishop Domingo Pantaleón Álvarez de Abreu † (1738)
Bishop of Tlaxcala (Puebla de los Angeles)
Bishop Pedro Manuel Dávila y Cárdenas † (1731)
Bishop of Islas Canarias {Canary Islands}
Bishop Julián Domínguez y Toledo † (1728)
Bishop of Valladolid
Bishop Silvestre García Escalona † (1702)
Bishop of Salamanca
Patriarch Pedro Portocarrero y Guzmán † (1691)
Patriarch of West Indies
Luis Manuel Cardinal Fernández de Portocarrero-Bocanegra y Moscoso-Osorio † (1678)
Archbishop of Toledo
Archbishop Jaime de Palafox y Cardona † (1677)
Archbishop of Palermo
Carlo Cardinal Pio di Savoia † (1655)
Cardinal-Priest of San Crisogono
Giambattista Cardinal Spada † (1643)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna
Marcantonio Cardinal Franciotti † (1637)
Bishop of Lucca
Antonio (Marcello) Cardinal Barberini (Sr.), O.F.M. Cap. † (1625)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio
Bishop Laudivio Zacchia † (1605)
Bishop of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone
Pietro Cardinal Aldobrandini † (1604)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Clement VIII (1592)
(Ippolito Aldobrandini (Sr.) †)
Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza) † (1564)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Francesco Cardinal Pisani † (1527)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Alessandro Cardinal Farnese † (1519)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Leo X (1513)
(Giovanni de’ Medici †)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Julius II (1481)
(Giuliano della Rovere †)
Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Innayya Chinna Addagatla † (1989)
Bishop Paul Maipan (1997)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Bali Gali (1984)
Bishop Joseph Das † (1993)
Anthony Cardinal Poola (2008)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 89194327
WikiData: Q1896551

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 3 Jul 2012
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 218, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: CB, 26 Feb 2018
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 238, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 41, Number 2,668
c34: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 58, Additions/Corrections (front)

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