Bishop Ignatius Gopu, M.S.F.S. †

Deceased

Bishop of Visakhapatnam, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Jul 1912		Born
28 Sep 1945	33.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales d’Annecy
10 Dec 1963	51.4	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Visakhapatnam, India
10 Dec 1963	51.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Feradi Maius
7 Apr 1964	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Feradi Maius
4 Oct 1966	54.2	Succeeded	Bishop of Visakhapatnam, India
2 Aug 1981	69.0	Died	Bishop of Visakhapatnam, India

MicroData Summary for Ignatius Gopu
(WikiData: Q23060956)
Bishop Ignatius Gopu M.S.F.S. (born 1 Jul 1912, died 2 Aug 1981) Bishop of Visakhapatnam

Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Rentachintala
Ordained Bishop Gnanapuram

a priest for 35.8 years
a bishop for 17.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Robert Knox †
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Joseph Mark Gopu †
Archbishop of Hyderabad
Bishop Joseph Albert Rosario, M.S.F.S. †
Bishop of Amravati

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
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 Thomas Thiruthalil, C.M. (1974)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph S. Thumma † (1970)
Bishop Abraham Aruliah Somavarapa † (1977)
Archbishop Kagithapu Mariadas, M.S.F.S. † (1977)
Bishop John Mulagada † (1977)

Source(s):

c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 80, Deceased Cardinals (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1964, Number 30

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