Archbishop Anthony Rayappa Arulappa †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Oct 1912		Born
19 Mar 1938	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest
1 Feb 1966	53.3	Appointed	Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India
25 Mar 1966	53.4	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India
26 Jan 1987	74.3	Retired	Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India
2 Aug 1996	83.8	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India

MicroData Summary
Anthony Rayappa Arulappa
Archbishop Anthony Rayappa Arulappa
(born 2 Oct 1912, died 2 Aug 1996)
Archbishop Emeritus of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)

Event Place
Birth Place Dharkast

a priest for 58.3 years
a bishop for 30.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Robert Knox †
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram †
Bishop of Tanjore
Bishop David Maryanayagam Swamidoss Pillat, S.D.B. †
Bishop of Vellore

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Peter Remigius (1966)
Archbishop Malayappan Chinnappa, S.D.B. (1972)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Royappan Antony Muthu † (1971)
Bishop Pudhota Chinniah Balaswamy † (1974)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Manuel Visuvasam † (1972)
Archbishop Savarinathan Michael Augustine † (1978)
Archbishop Casimir Gnanadickam, S.J. † (1985)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 544151246597644132378
WikiData: Q2653345

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 148, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 80, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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