Bishop Thomas Thiruthalil, C.M.

Bishop Emeritus of Balasore, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Jan 1936		Born
14 Apr 1963	27.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Mission
24 Jan 1974	38.0	Appointed	Bishop of Berhampur, India
5 May 1974	38.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Berhampur, India
18 Dec 1989	53.9	Appointed	Bishop of Balasore, India
9 Dec 2013	77.8	Retired	Bishop of Balasore, India

MicroData Summary
Thomas Thiruthalil
Bishop Thomas Thiruthalil C.M.
(born 17 Jan 1936)
Bishop Emeritus of Balasore

Ad Limina - May 2011: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Vazhakulam
Ordained Bishop Gopalpur

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Balasore.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Ignatius Gopu, M.S.F.S. †
Bishop of Visakhapatnam
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Ignatius Mummadi †
Bishop Emeritus of Guntur
Bishop Hermann Westermann, S.V.D. †
Bishop Emeritus of Sambalpur

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Ignatius Gopu, M.S.F.S. † (1964)
Bishop of Visakhapatnam
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Das † (1993)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Lucas Kerketta, S.V.D. (1987)
Bishop Simon Kaipuram, C.M. † (2014)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2427596

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 9 Dec 2013
b/c2+: Episcopologio Español, Volume 1,868, Page 149, Number 3
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 25, Number 1,418

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