Bishop Mathew Arackal

Bishop Emeritus of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar), India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Dec 1944		Born
13 Mar 1971	26.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar), India
26 Feb 1977	32.2	Incardinated	Priest of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar), India
23 Dec 2000	56.0	Appointed	Bishop of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar), India
9 Feb 2001	56.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar), India
15 Jan 2020	75.0	Retired	Bishop of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar), India

MicroData Summary
Mathew Arackal
Bishop Mathew Arackal
(born 10 Dec 1944)
Bishop Emeritus of Kanjirapally

Ad Limina - March 2011: Bishop
Ad Limina - October 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Erumely
Ordained Bishop Saint Dominic, Cathedral, Kanjirapally, Eparchy of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar)

Please contact the Bishop through the Eparchy of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar).

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Antony Padiyara †
Archbishop of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar)
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Joseph Powathil †
Archbishop of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Mathew Vattackuzhy †
Bishop Emeritus of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar)
Bishop Kuriakose Kunnacherry †
Bishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Joseph Powathil † (1972)
Archbishop of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar)
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
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 Jose Pulickal (2016)
Archbishop Sebastian Vaniyapurackal (2017)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1908385

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Number 13,900
r: Bollettino, 15 Jan 2020
opd/inca/c1: CB, 5 Jul 2024

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