Bishop Leon Augustine Tharmaraj †

Deceased

Bishop of Kottar, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Apr 1941		Born
29 Mar 1965	23.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kottar, India
14 Nov 1988	47.5	Appointed	Bishop of Kottar, India
6 Jan 1989	47.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kottar, India
16 Jan 2007	65.7	Died	Bishop of Kottar, India

MicroData Summary
Leon Augustine Tharmaraj
Bishop Leon Augustine Tharmaraj
(born 11 Apr 1941, died 16 Jan 2007)
Bishop of Kottar

Event Place
Birth Place Kovalam

a priest for 41.7 years
a bishop for 18.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Edward Idris Cassidy †
Titular Archbishop of Amantia
Archbishop José Tomás Sánchez †
Archbishop Emeritus of Nueva Segovia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 Maria Callist Soosa Pakiam (1990)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1818853

Source(s):

d: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 113, Number 10,026
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 191, Necrology (back)

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