Bishop Joseph Pandarasseril (Pandarassery)

Auxiliary Bishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar), India

Titular Bishop of Castellum Ripae

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Apr 1961		Born
28 Dec 1987	26.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar), India
21 Aug 2006	45.3	Selected	Auxiliary Bishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar), India
20 Sep 2006	45.4	Confirmed	Auxiliary Bishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar), India
20 Sep 2006	45.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Castellum Ripae
28 Oct 2006	45.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Castellum Ripae

MicroData Summary
Joseph Pandarasseril (Pandarassery)
Bishop Joseph Pandarasseril (Pandarassery)
(born 18 Apr 1961)
Auxiliary Bishop of Kottayam

Ad Limina - March 2011: Bishop
Ad Limina - October 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Ettumanoor, Eparchy of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar)
Ordained Bishop Christ the King, Cathedral, Kottayam, Archeparchy of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar)

Please contact the Bishop through the Archeparchy of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar).

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Kuriakose Kunnacherry †
Archbishop Emeritus of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Mathew Moolakkatt, O.S.B.
Archbishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar)
Archbishop Baselios Cleemis (Isaac) Thottunkal
Archbishop of Tiruvalla (Syro-Malankara)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Kuriakose Kunnacherry † (1968)
Archbishop Emeritus of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar)
Maximilien Cardinal de Fürstenberg † (1949)
Cardinal-Priest of Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio
Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey † (1926)
Archbishop of Mechelen
Archbishop Clemente Micara † (1920)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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 Gheevarghese Aphrem Kurisummoottil (2020)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1688776

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 20 Sep 2006
ob: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 187, Number 15,278
~OSB: CB, 11 Feb 2024

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