Bishop Arochiasamy Jude Gerald Paulraj

Bishop Emeritus of Palayamkottai, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Apr 1943		Born
8 Dec 1968	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest
23 Oct 2000	57.4	Appointed	Bishop of Palayamkottai, India
8 Dec 2000	57.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Palayamkottai, India
29 Jun 2018	75.1	Retired	Bishop of Palayamkottai, India

MicroData Summary
Arochiasamy Jude Gerald Paulraj
Bishop Arochiasamy Jude Gerald Paulraj
(born 28 Apr 1943)
Bishop Emeritus of Palayamkottai

Ad Limina - June 2011: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Pazhayakovil
Ordained Bishop Palayamkottai, Diocese of Palayamkottai

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Palayamkottai.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Marianus Arokiasamy †
Archbishop of Madurai
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Savarinathen Iruthayaraj †
Bishop Emeritus of Palayamkottai
Bishop Peter Fernando †
Bishop of Tuticorin

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Antonysamy Savarimuthu (2019)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1567003

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 161, Number 13,865
r: CB, 29 Jun 2018
r: Bollettino, 2 Jul 2018

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