Bishop Thomas Roch Agniswami, S.J. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Kottar, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Mar 1891		Born
25 Nov 1923	32.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Jesus
5 Jan 1939	47.7	Appointed	Bishop of Kottar, India
29 Oct 1939	48.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kottar, India
23 Nov 1970	79.6	Retired	Bishop of Kottar, India
7 May 1974	83.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Kottar, India

MicroData Summary
Thomas Roch Agniswami
Bishop Thomas Roch Agniswami S.J.
(born 26 Mar 1891, died 7 May 1974)
Bishop Emeritus of Kottar

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Trichinopoly, Diocese of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Dindigul

a priest for 50.4 years
a bishop for 34.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Pius XII
(Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini †
Titular Archbishop of Theodosiopolis in Arcadia
Archbishop Henri Streicher, M. Afr. †
Titular Archbishop of Brysis

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Pius XII (1917)
(Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †)
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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:
Bishop Peter Bernard Pereira † (1955)
Archbishop Marianus Arokiasamy † (1971)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2426867

Source(s):

c2+: CB
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1939, Number 57

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