Bishop Ephrem Nariculam

Bishop of Chanda (Syro-Malabar), India

Motto: Thy Kingdom Come

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Dec 1960		Born
27 Dec 1986	26.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar), India
31 Jul 2014	53.6	Appointed	Bishop of Chanda (Syro-Malabar), India
24 Oct 2014	53.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Chanda (Syro-Malabar), India

MicroData Summary
Ephrem Nariculam
Bishop Ephrem Nariculam
(born 10 Dec 1960)
Bishop of Chanda

Ad Limina - October 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Nayarambalam, Archeparchy of Ernakulam (Syro-Malabar)
Ordained Bishop Grounds of, Pastoral Centre, Ballarpur, Eparchy of Chanda (Syro-Malabar)

Please contact the Bishop through the Eparchy of Chanda (Syro-Malabar).

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
George Cardinal Alencherry
Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Abraham Viruthakulangara †
Archbishop of Nagpur
Bishop Vijay Anand Nedumpuram, C.M.I.
Bishop Emeritus of Chanda (Syro-Malabar)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

George Cardinal Alencherry (1997)
Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar)
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q17540104

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 31 Jul 2014
bp: CB, 31 Jul 2014
ob: CB, 15 Aug 2014
c2+: CB, 1 Sep 2014
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 221, Number 18,312

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