Bishop Johannes Gorantla †

Deceased

Bishop of Kurnool, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Apr 1952		Born
19 Mar 1977	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest
6 Dec 1993	41.6	Appointed	Bishop of Kurnool, India
26 Jan 1994	41.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kurnool, India
20 Jan 2007	54.7	Died	Bishop of Kurnool, India

MicroData Summary
Johannes Gorantla
Bishop Johannes Gorantla
(born 10 Apr 1952, died 20 Jan 2007)
Bishop of Kurnool

Event Place
Birth Place Managalapalli

a priest for 29.8 years
a bishop for 12.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Saminini Arulappa †
Archbishop of Hyderabad
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Joseph S. Thumma †
Bishop of Vijayawada
Bishop Mathew Cheriankunnel, P.I.M.E. †
Bishop Emeritus of Kurnool

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Saminini Arulappa † (1972)
Archbishop of Hyderabad
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: Q996582

Source(s):

d: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 139, Number 12,338
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 191, Necrology (back)

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