Bishop Stephen Chirappanath

Apostolic Visitor (Visitator)

Titular Bishop of Slebte

Note(s): (Europe/Syro-Malabar)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Dec 1961		Born
26 Dec 1987	26.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Irinjalakuda (Syro-Malabar), India
28 Jul 2016	54.5	Appointed	Apostolic Visitor (Visitator)
28 Jul 2016	54.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Slebte
1 Nov 2016	54.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Slebte

MicroData Summary
Stephen Chirappanath
Bishop Stephen Chirappanath
(born 26 Dec 1961)
Apostolic Visitor (Visitator)

Ad Limina - October 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Puthenchira
Ordained Bishop San Paolo fuori le Mura, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
George Cardinal Alencherry
Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Leonardo Cardinal Sandri
Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari
Bishop Pauly Kannookadan
Bishop of Irinjalakuda (Syro-Malabar)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

George Cardinal Alencherry (1997)
Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar)
Archbishop Joseph Powathil † (1972)
Archbishop of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar)
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q26159507

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 28 Jul 2016
ob/c2: CB, 3 Sep 2016
c34: CB, 30 Oct 2016
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Number 19,210

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