Bishop Michael Bosco Duraisamy †

Deceased

Bishop of Salem, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Apr 1929		Born
17 Dec 1955	26.6	Ordained Priest	Priest
28 Feb 1974	44.8	Appointed	Bishop of Salem, India
10 Jun 1974	45.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Salem, India
9 Jun 1999	70.1	Died	Bishop of Salem, India

MicroData Summary
Michael Bosco Duraisamy
Bishop Michael Bosco Duraisamy
(born 29 Apr 1929, died 9 Jun 1999)
Bishop of Salem

Event Place
Birth Place Gingee
Ordained Bishop St. Francis Xavier, Salem, Diocese of Salem

a priest for 43.4 years
a bishop for 24.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
John Joseph Cardinal Krol †
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Venmani S. Selvanather †
Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore
Archbishop Ambrose Rayappan †
Archbishop Emeritus of Pondicherry and Cuddalore

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

John Joseph Cardinal Krol † (1953)
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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: Q1927030

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 144
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 158, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 24, Number 1,370

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