Bishop Soundaraj Periyanayagam, S.D.B. †

Deceased

Bishop of Vellore, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Jun 1949		Born
24 May 1970	20.9	Professed	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
25 Jun 1983	34.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
11 Jul 2006	57.0	Appointed	Bishop of Vellore, India
24 Aug 2006	57.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Vellore, India
21 Mar 2020	70.7	Died	Bishop of Vellore, India

MicroData Summary for Soundaraj Periyanayagam
(WikiData: Q2304110)
Bishop Soundaraj Periyanayagam S.D.B. (born 6 Jun 1949, died 21 Mar 2020) Bishop of Vellore

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

Event Place
Birth Place Periya Kolappalur
Ordained Bishop Grounds of, Cathedral, Vellore, Diocese of Vellore
Death Place St. Thomas, Hospital, Chetpet, Diocese of Vellore

a priest for 36.7 years
a bishop for 13.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Malayappan Chinnappa, S.D.B.
Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Antony Anandarayar †
Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore
Bishop Thomas Aquinas Lephonse
Bishop of Coimbatore

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Malayappan Chinnappa, S.D.B. (1994)
Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)
Duraisamy Simon Cardinal Lourdusamy † (1962)
Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci fuori Porta Cavalleggeri
Archbishop Ambrose Rayappan † (1953)
Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore
Archbishop Auguste-Siméon Colas, M.E.P. † (1930)
Archbishop of Pondicherry
Archbishop Élie-Jean-Joseph Morel, M.E.P. † (1909)
Titular Archbishop of Cotrada
Bishop Hugues-Madelain Bottero, M.E.P. † (1899)
Bishop of Kumbakonam
Archbishop Joseph-Adolphe Gandy, M.E.P. † (1883)
Archbishop of Pondicherry
Bishop François-Jean-Marie Laouënan, M.E.P. † (1868)
Titular Bishop of Flaviopolis
Bishop Etienne-Louis Charbonnaux, M.E.P. † (1845)
Titular Bishop of Iasus
Bishop Clément Bonnand, M.E.P. † (1833)
Titular Bishop of Druzipara
Bishop Louis-Charles-Auguste Hébert, M.E.P. † (1811)
Titular Bishop of Halicarnassus
Bishop Paolo Antonio Roviglia, O.C.D. † (1808)
Titular Bishop of Sura
Bishop Antonio Ramazzini, O.C.D. † (1795)
Titular Bishop of Antiphellus
Bishop Luigi Pianazzi, O.C.D. † (1785)
Titular Bishop of Usula
Bishop Pierre Brigot, M.E.P. † (1757)
Titular Bishop of Thabraca
Bishop Juan de La Fuente Yepes † (1755)
Bishop of Nueva Segovia
Bishop Manuel de Matos, O.F.M. Disc. † (1754)
Bishop of Nueva Caceres
Archbishop Manuel José Rubio y Salinas † (1749)
Archbishop of México, Federal District
Bishop Domingo Pantaleón Álvarez de Abreu † (1738)
Bishop of Tlaxcala (Puebla de los Angeles)
Bishop Pedro Manuel Dávila y Cárdenas † (1731)
Bishop of Islas Canarias {Canary Islands}
Bishop Julián Domínguez y Toledo † (1728)
Bishop of Valladolid
Bishop Silvestre García Escalona † (1702)
Bishop of Salamanca
Patriarch Pedro Portocarrero y Guzmán † (1691)
Patriarch of West Indies
Luis Manuel Cardinal Fernández de Portocarrero-Bocanegra y Moscoso-Osorio † (1678)
Archbishop of Toledo
Archbishop Jaime de Palafox y Cardona † (1677)
Archbishop of Palermo
Carlo Cardinal Pio di Savoia † (1655)
Cardinal-Priest of San Crisogono
Giambattista Cardinal Spada † (1643)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna
Marcantonio Cardinal Franciotti † (1637)
Bishop of Lucca
Antonio (Marcello) Cardinal Barberini (Sr.), O.F.M. Cap. † (1625)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio
Bishop Laudivio Zacchia † (1605)
Bishop of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone
Pietro Cardinal Aldobrandini † (1604)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Clement VIII (1592)
(Ippolito Aldobrandini (Sr.) †)
Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza) † (1564)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Francesco Cardinal Pisani † (1527)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Alessandro Cardinal Farnese † (1519)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Leo X (1513)
(Giovanni de’ Medici †)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Julius II (1481)
(Giuliano della Rovere †)
Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Stephen Antony Pillai (2019)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Periya Kolappalur
Ordained Bishop	Grounds of, Cathedral, Vellore, Diocese of Vellore
Death Place	St. Thomas, Hospital, Chetpet, Diocese of Vellore

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 11 Jul 2006
c2/ob: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 186, Number 15,226
d: CB, 21 Mar 2020
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 246, Necrology (back)

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