Bishop Paul Chittilapilly †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Thamarasserry (Syro-Malabar), India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Feb 1934		Born
18 Oct 1961	27.6	Ordained Priest	Priest
30 Apr 1988	54.2	Appointed	Bishop of Kalyan (Syro-Malabar), India
24 Aug 1988	54.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kalyan (Syro-Malabar), India
11 Nov 1996	62.7	Appointed	Bishop of Thamarasserry (Syro-Malabar), India
15 Jan 2010	75.9	Retired	Bishop of Thamarasserry (Syro-Malabar), India
6 Sep 2020	86.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Thamarasserry (Syro-Malabar), India

MicroData Summary
Paul Chittilapilly
Bishop Paul Chittilapilly
(born 7 Feb 1934, died 6 Sep 2020)
Bishop Emeritus of Thamarasserry

Event Place
Birth Place Mattom
Ordained Bishop Matunga grounds, Don Bosco, Church, Bombay
Death Place Kozhikode

a priest for 58.8 years
a bishop for 32.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Antony Cardinal Padiyara †
Archbishop of Ernakulam (Syro-Malabar)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Benedict Varghese Gregorios Thangalathil, O.I.C. †
Archbishop of Trivandrum (Syro-Malankara)
Bishop Joseph Kundukulam †
Bishop of Trichur (Syro-Malabar)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Antony Cardinal Padiyara † (1955)
Archbishop of Ernakulam (Syro-Malabar)
Bishop René-Jean-Baptiste-Germain Feuga, M.E.P. † (1941)
Bishop of Mysore
Archbishop Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. † (1931)
Titular Archbishop of Salamis
Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.Ss.R. † (1918)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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 Thomas Elavanal, M.C.B.S. (1997)
Bishop Remigius Maria Paul Inchananiyil (2010)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 317284729
WikiData: Q2059140

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 18 Jan 2010
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 112, Number 9,915
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 117, Number 10,449
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 158, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: CB, 6 Sep 2020
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 246, Necrology (back)

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