Archbishop Thomas Pothacamury (Pothakamuri) †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore, India

Titular Archbishop of Thimida Regia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Sep 1889		Born
17 Dec 1916	27.2	Ordained Priest	Priest
9 Apr 1940	50.6	Appointed	Bishop of Guntur, India
29 Jun 1940	50.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Guntur, India
15 Oct 1942	53.1	Appointed	Bishop of Bangalore, India
19 Sep 1953	64.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Bangalore, India
11 Jan 1968	78.3	Retired	Archbishop of Bangalore, India
11 Jan 1968	78.3	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Thimida Regia
18 May 1968	78.7	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore, India

MicroData Summary for Thomas Pothacamury (Pothakamuri)
(VIAF: 118699709; WikiData: Q49085304)
Archbishop Thomas Pothacamury (Pothakamuri) (born 2 Sep 1889, died 18 May 1968) Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore

Event Place
Birth Place Ravipadu
Ordained Bishop Madras, Archdiocese of Madras

a priest for 51.4 years
a bishop for 27.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Louis Mathias, S.D.B. †
Archbishop of Madras
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop William Joseph Anthony Bouter, M.H.M. †
Bishop of Nellore
Bishop Domenico Grassi, P.I.M.E. †
Bishop of Bezwada

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Louis Mathias, S.D.B. † (1934)
Archbishop of Madras
Archbishop Ferdinand Périer, S.J. † (1921)
Archbishop of Calcutta
Archbishop Pietro Pisani † (1919)
Titular Archbishop of Constantia in Scythia
Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.SS.R. † (1918)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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

Ordained Priest:
Varkey Cardinal Vithayathil, C.SS.R. † (1954)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Fortunato da Veiga Coutinho † (1962)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph-Alphonse Baud, M.S.F.S. † (1942)
Bishop Ignatius Mummadi † (1943)
Valerian Cardinal Gracias † (1946)
Archbishop Leonard Joseph Raymond † (1947)
Bishop Ignatius Philip Trigueros Glennie, S.J. † (1947)
Bishop Aldo Maria Patroni, S.J. † (1948)
Archbishop Joseph Mark Gopu † (1948)
Archbishop Joseph Alexander Fernandes † (1949)
Bishop Francis Xavier Muthappa † (1950)
Bishop Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram † (1953)
Bishop Pablo Mariaselvam, S.D.B. † (1953)
Bishop Francis Arthur Carvalho † (1953)
Archbishop Ambrose Rayappan † (1953)

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1940, Number 39
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 97, Number 8,319

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