Archbishop George Kocherry

Apostolic Nuncio

Titular Archbishop of Othona

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Feb 1945		Born
26 Jun 1974	29.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar), India
10 Jun 2000	55.3	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Othona
10 Jun 2000	55.3	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana
10 Jun 2000	55.3	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Togo
21 Aug 2000	55.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Othona
2002	56.9	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Togo
22 Dec 2007	62.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Zimbabwe
6 Jul 2013	68.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Bangladesh
24 Aug 2022	77.5	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Bangladesh

MicroData Summary for George Kocherry
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Archbishop George Kocherry (born 4 Feb 1945) Apostolic Nuncio

Event Place
Birth Place Changanacherry, Eparchy of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar), India
Ordained Bishop Courtyard, St. Mary, Cathedral, Changanacherry, Archeparchy of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar), India

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Joseph Powathil †
Archbishop of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop George Valiamattam
Archbishop of Tellicherry (Syro-Malabar)
Bishop Joseph Pallikaparampil
Bishop of Palai (Syro-Malabar)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Joseph Powathil † (1972)
Archbishop of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar)
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 Consecrator of:
Archbishop Alex Thomas Kaliyanil, S.V.D. (2009)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye (2004)
Bishop Shorot Francis Gomes (2016)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Changanacherry, Eparchy of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar), India
Ordained Bishop	Courtyard, St. Mary, Cathedral, Changanacherry, Archeparchy of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar), India

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 22 Dec 2007
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 160, Number 13,824
ab: Bollettino, 6 Jul 2013
r: Bollettino, 24 Aug 2022
opd: CB, 31 Dec 2023

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