Bishop Siluvaimathu Teresanathan Amalnather †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Tuticorin, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Nov 1925		Born
24 Aug 1951	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest
29 Nov 1980	55.0	Appointed	Bishop of Tuticorin, India
4 Feb 1981	55.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tuticorin, India
8 Dec 1999	74.0	Resigned	Bishop of Tuticorin, India
12 Feb 2010	84.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Tuticorin, India

MicroData Summary
Siluvaimathu Teresanathan Amalnather
Bishop Siluvaimathu Teresanathan Amalnather
(born 17 Nov 1925, died 12 Feb 2010)
Bishop Emeritus of Tuticorin

Event Place
Birth Place Nagapattinam
Ordained Bishop Jesus and Mary, Cathedral, Tuticorin, Diocese of Tuticorin

a priest for 58.4 years
a bishop for 29.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Justin Diraviam †
Archbishop of Madurai
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram †
Bishop of Tanjore
Bishop Ambrose Mathalaimuthu †
Bishop of Coimbatore

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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 Peter Fernando † (1996)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2286384

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 76, Number 6,129
c34: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 85, Additions/Corrections (front)

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