Bishop Thomas Aquinas Lephonse

Bishop of Coimbatore

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Mar 1953		Born	Pillaithope
22 May 1980	27.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Vellore, India
10 Jul 2002	49.3	Appointed	Bishop of Coimbatore, India
28 Aug 2002	49.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Coimbatore, India

Ad Limina - June 2011: Bishop

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Coimbatore.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Ambrose Mathalaimuthu †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop James Masilamony Arul Das †
Archbishop Malayappan Chinnappa, S.D.B.

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Thomas Aquinas Lephonse (2002)
Bishop Ambrose Mathalaimuthu † (1971)
Archbishop Justin Diraviam † (1967)
James Robert Cardinal Knox † (1953)
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Soundaraj Periyanayagam, S.D.B.

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 168, Number 14,243

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