Bishop Arulselvam Rayappan

Bishop of Salem, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Nov 1960		Born
20 May 1986	25.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India
31 May 2021	60.5	Appointed	Bishop of Salem, India
4 Aug 2021	60.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Salem, India

MicroData Summary
Arulselvam Rayappan
Bishop Arulselvam Rayappan
(born 18 Nov 1960)
Bishop of Salem

Event Place
Birth Place Sathipattu, Archdiocese of Pondicherry and Cuddalore
Ordained Bishop Infant Jesus, Cathedral, Salem, Diocese of Salem

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Salem.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Antony Pappusamy
Archbishop of Madurai
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Singaroyan Sebastianappan
Bishop Emeritus of Salem
Bishop Lawrence Pius Dorairaj
Bishop of Dharmapuri

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Antony Pappusamy (1999)
Archbishop of Madurai
Archbishop Marianus Arokiasamy † (1971)
Archbishop of Madurai
Archbishop Justin Diraviam † (1967)
Archbishop of Madurai
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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: Q107044327

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 31 May 2021
ob: CB, 17 Jul 2021
c2+: CB, 31 Jul 2021
c2: CB, 4 Aug 2021
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 249, Number 20,725

Home | Countries | Religious Men Women | Popes | Holy See | Roman Curia | Cardinals by Rank
Bishops: All | Living | Deceased | Youngest | Oldest | Cardinal Electors
Dioceses: All | Current Only | Titular | Vacant | Structured View
Events: Overview | Recent | by Date | by Year | Necrology
Ad Limina | Conclaves | Consistories | Councils
Eastern Catholic Churches

About Catholic-Hierarchy

Terminology/Site Help

Copyright David M. Cheney, 1996-2026
Code: web_b, v3.4.3, 19 May 2025; Data: 29 Aug 2026

✠