Oswald Cardinal Gracias

Archbishop of Bombay

Cardinal-Priest of S. Paolo della Croce a “Corviale”

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Dec 1944		Born	Mumbai
20 Dec 1970	26.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bombay, India
28 Jun 1997	52.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India
28 Jun 1997	52.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bladia
16 Sep 1997	52.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Bladia
7 Sep 2000	55.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Agra, India
14 Oct 2006	61.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Bombay, India
14 Dec 2006	62.0	Installed	Archbishop of Bombay, India
24 Nov 2007	62.9	Elevated to Cardinal
24 Nov 2007	62.9	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of S. Paolo della Croce a “Corviale”
10 May 2008	63.4	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of S. Paolo della Croce a “Corviale”

Consistory - 2007: Created Cardinal

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Ordained Priest by:
Valerian Cardinal Gracias †
Principal Consecrator:
Ivan Cardinal Dias
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca
Bishop Bosco Penha
Simon Ignatius Cardinal Pimenta

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Oswald Cardinal Gracias (1997)
Ivan Cardinal Dias (1982)
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (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 Consecrator of:
Archbishop Felix Anthony Machado
Bishop Henry D'Souza
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Anil Joseph Thomas Couto
Bishop Thomas Thuruthimattam, C.S.T.
Bishop Sarat Chandra Nayak
Bishop Raphy Manjaly

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