Bishop Joji Govindu

Bishop Emeritus of Nalgonda, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 May 1944		Born
26 Dec 1969	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest
21 Apr 1997	52.9	Appointed	Bishop of Nalgonda, India
24 Jun 1997	53.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Nalgonda, India
9 Aug 2012	68.2	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Vijayawada, India
2 Feb 2016	71.7	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Vijayawada, India
31 Jul 2021	77.2	Retired	Bishop of Nalgonda, India

MicroData Summary
Joji Govindu
Bishop Joji Govindu
(born 3 May 1944)
Bishop Emeritus of Nalgonda

Ad Limina - May 2011: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Dharmaram
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Nalgonda, Diocese of Nalgonda

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Nalgonda.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Saminini Arulappa †
Archbishop of Hyderabad
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Thumma Bala †
Bishop of Warangal
Bishop Innayya Chinna Addagatla †
Bishop of Srikakulam

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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Bhagyaiah Chinnabathini (2016)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1702563

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 149, Number 13,022
r: Bollettino, 31 Jul 2021

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