Bishop Ambrose Pitchaimuthu

Bishop of Vellore, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 May 1966		Born
25 Mar 1993	26.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India
19 Jul 2002	36.2	Incardinated	Priest of Chingleput, India
9 Nov 2024	58.5	Appointed	Bishop of Vellore, India
9 Dec 2024	58.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Vellore, India

MicroData Summary
Ambrose Pitchaimuthu
Bishop Ambrose Pitchaimuthu
(born 3 May 1966)
Bishop of Vellore

Event Place
Birth Place Cheyyur
Ordained Priest San Thome, Cathedral Basilica, Madras, Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)
Ordained Bishop Grounds of, Don Bosco High School, Vellore, Diocese of Vellore

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Vellore.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Casimir Gnanadickam, S.J. †
Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop George Antonysamy
Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Neethinathan Anthonisamy
Bishop of Chingleput
Bishop Thomas Aquinas Lephonse
Bishop of Coimbatore

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop George Antonysamy (2005)
Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)
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

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WikiData: Q131150355

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 9 Nov 2024
c1/loc: CB, 9 Nov 2024
ob.c2+: CB, 24 Nov 2024

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