Archbishop Peter Fernando †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Madurai, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Mar 1939		Born
31 May 1971	32.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tuticorin, India
23 Feb 1996	56.9	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Tuticorin, India
29 May 1996	57.1	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Tuticorin, India
14 Oct 1997	58.5	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Tiruchirapalli, India
8 Dec 1999	60.7	Succeeded	Bishop of Tuticorin, India
28 Jan 2001	61.8	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Tiruchirapalli, India
22 Mar 2003	64.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Madurai, India
26 Jul 2014	75.3	Retired	Archbishop of Madurai, India
31 Dec 2016	77.7	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Madurai, India

MicroData Summary
Peter Fernando
Archbishop Peter Fernando
(born 22 Mar 1939, died 31 Dec 2016)
Archbishop Emeritus of Madurai

Ad Limina - June 2011: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Idinthakarai
Ordained Bishop Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Tuticorin, Diocese of Tuticorin

a priest for 45.5 years
a bishop for 20.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Marianus Arokiasamy †
Archbishop of Madurai
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Siluvaimathu Teresanathan Amalnather †
Bishop of Tuticorin
Bishop Thomas Fernando †
Bishop Emeritus of Tiruchirapalli

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Marianus Arokiasamy † (1971)
Archbishop of Madurai
Archbishop Justin Diraviam † (1967)
Archbishop of Madurai
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Archbishop of Melbourne
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Jebalamai Susaimanickam (2005)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Antony Pappusamy (1999)
Bishop Arochiasamy Jude Gerald Paulraj (2000)
Bishop Antony Devotta † (2001)
Bishop Yvon Ambroise (2005)
Archbishop Alangaram Arockia Sebastian Durairaj, S.V.D. (2009)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2074821

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 148, Number 12,906
r: Bollettino, 26 Jul 2014
d: CB, 31 Dec 2016
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Necrology (back)
aadm: CB, 13 Jul 2024

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