Bishop Agnelo Rufino Gracias

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bombay, India

Titular Bishop of Molicunza

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Jul 1939		Born
21 Dec 1962	23.3	Ordained Priest	Priest
13 Mar 2001	61.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India
13 Mar 2001	61.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Molicunza
21 Apr 2001	61.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Molicunza
30 Jul 2014	75.0	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India
20 Sep 2018	79.1	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator, Sede Plena of Jullundur, India
1 Jun 2023	83.8	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator, Sede Vacante of Jullundur, India
12 Jul 2025	85.9	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator, Sede Vacante of Jullundur, India

MicroData Summary
Agnelo Rufino Gracias
Bishop Agnelo Rufino Gracias
(born 30 Jul 1939)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bombay

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

Event Place
Birth Place Mombasa
Ordained Bishop Don Bosco High School, Matunga, Archdiocese of Bombay

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Bombay.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Ivan Cornelius Cardinal Dias †
Archbishop of Bombay
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Simon Ignatius Cardinal Pimenta †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria “Regina Mundi” a Torre Spaccata
Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri
Titular Archbishop of Diocletiana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Ivan Cornelius Cardinal Dias † (1982)
Archbishop of Bombay
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
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 Dominic Savio Fernandes (2013)
Archbishop John Rodrigues (2013)
Bishop Sahaya Thatheus Thomas (2025)
Bishop Jose Sebastian Thekkumcherikunnel (2025)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q394409

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 163, Number 13,963
r: Bollettino, 30 Jul 2014
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 232, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ab: CB, 20 Sep 2018

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