Bishop Mathai Kochuparampil, S.D.B. †

Deceased

Bishop of Diphu, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 May 1939		Born
26 Apr 1960	20.9	Professed	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
20 Dec 1969	30.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
5 Dec 1983	44.5	Appointed	Bishop of Diphu, India
6 Jan 1984	44.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Diphu, India
4 Mar 1992	52.7	Died	Bishop of Diphu, India

MicroData Summary
Mathai Kochuparampil
Bishop Mathai Kochuparampil S.D.B.
(born 28 May 1939, died 4 Mar 1992)
Bishop of Diphu

Event Place
Birth Place Kanjirapally, Eparchy of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar)
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 22.2 years
a bishop for 8.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora
Archbishop Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy †
Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore

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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1908318

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 133
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 83, Number 6,868

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