Bishop Oswald Joseph Lewis

Bishop Emeritus of Jaipur, India

Apostolic Administrator of Ajmer

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Jul 1944		Born
30 Dec 1972	28.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lucknow, India
21 Nov 1997	53.3	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Meerut, India
16 Apr 1998	53.7	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Meerut, India
20 Jul 2005	60.9	Appointed	Bishop of Jaipur, India
22 Apr 2023	78.7	Retired	Bishop of Jaipur, India
23 Mar 2024	79.6	Installed	Apostolic Administrator of Ajmer, India

MicroData Summary for Oswald Joseph Lewis
(WikiData: Q1532001)
Bishop Oswald Joseph Lewis (born 30 Jul 1944) Bishop Emeritus of Jaipur

Ad Limina - September 2011: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Kemmannu, Diocese of Mangalore
Ordained Bishop Open Air, St. Mary's Academy, Meerut, Diocese of Meerut

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Jaipur.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Cecil DeSa †
Archbishop Emeritus of Agra
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Patrick Nair †
Bishop of Meerut
Bishop Albert D’Souza
Bishop of Lucknow

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Cecil DeSa † (1971)
Archbishop Emeritus of Agra
Archbishop Eugene Louis D’Souza, M.S.F.S. † (1951)
Archbishop of Bhopal
Archbishop Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. † (1931)
Titular Archbishop of Salamis
Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.SS.R. † (1918)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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 Joseph Kallarackal (2023)

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 20 Jul 2005
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Number 13,319
r: Bollettino, 22 Apr 2023
mn: CB, 17 Jun 2023

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