Archbishop Thumma Bala †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Hyderabad, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Apr 1944		Born
21 Dec 1970	26.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Warangal, India
17 Nov 1986	42.5	Appointed	Bishop of Warangal, India
12 Mar 1987	42.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Warangal, India
12 Mar 2011	66.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Hyderabad, India
5 May 2011	67.0	Installed	Archbishop of Hyderabad, India
19 Nov 2020	76.5	Retired	Archbishop of Hyderabad, India
30 May 2024	80.0	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Hyderabad, India

MicroData Summary
Thumma Bala
Archbishop Thumma Bala
(born 24 Apr 1944, died 30 May 2024)
Archbishop Emeritus of Hyderabad

Ad Limina - May 2011: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Narimetta, Diocese of Hyderabad
Ordained Bishop N.D. de Fatima, Cathedral, Warangal, Diocese of Warangal
Death Place Warangal, Diocese of Warangal

a priest for 53.4 years
a bishop for 37.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Saminini Arulappa †
Archbishop of Hyderabad
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Alfonso Beretta, P.I.M.E. †
Bishop Emeritus of Warangal
Bishop Joseph S. Thumma †
Bishop of Vijayawada

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Saminini Arulappa † (1972)
Archbishop of Hyderabad
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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 Joji Govindu (1997)
Archbishop Udumala Bala Showreddy (2013)
Bishop Joseph Raja Rao Thelegathoti, S.M.M. (2016)
Bishop Rayarala Vijay Kumar, P.I.M.E. (2019)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2429869

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 12 Mar 2011
i: CB, 16 May 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 112, Number 9,903
r: Bollettino, 19 Nov 2020
d: CB, 30 May 2024

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