Archbishop Antony Anandarayar †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Jul 1945		Born
21 Dec 1971	26.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India
2 Jan 1997	51.4	Appointed	Bishop of Ootacamund, India
29 Jan 1997	51.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ootacamund, India
10 Jun 2004	58.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India
5 Jul 2004	58.9	Installed	Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India
27 Jan 2021	75.5	Retired	Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India
4 May 2021	75.7	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India

MicroData Summary for Antony Anandarayar
(WikiData: Q607891)
Archbishop Antony Anandarayar (born 17 Jul 1945, died 4 May 2021) Archbishop Emeritus of Pondicherry and Cuddalore

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

Event Place
Birth Place Varadarajanpet
Ordained Bishop Saint Mary, Church, Ootacamund, Diocese of Ootacamund
Death Place St. Thomas, Hospital, Chennai

a priest for 49.3 years
a bishop for 24.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Duraisamy Simon Cardinal Lourdusamy †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci fuori Porta Cavalleggeri
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop James Masilamony Arul Das †
Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)
Archbishop Savarinathan Michael Augustine †
Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Duraisamy Simon Cardinal Lourdusamy † (1962)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci fuori Porta Cavalleggeri
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 Antonisamy Francis (2008)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Yvon Ambroise (2005)
Bishop Amalraj Arulappan (2006)
Bishop Soundaraj Periyanayagam, S.D.B. † (2006)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Varadarajanpet
Ordained Bishop	Saint Mary, Church, Ootacamund, Diocese of Ootacamund
Death Place	St. Thomas, Hospital, Chennai

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 148, Number 12,914
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 218, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 27 Jan 2021
d: CB, 4 May 2021
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Necrology (back)
opd: CB, 26 Jul 2024

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