Archbishop Udumala Bala Showreddy

Archbishop of Visakhapatnam, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Jun 1954		Born
20 Feb 1979	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Warangal, India
13 Apr 2013	58.8	Appointed	Bishop of Warangal, India
23 May 2013	58.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Warangal, India
Sep 2022²	68.2	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Khammam, India
9 Apr 2024	69.8	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Khammam, India
8 Feb 2025	70.6	Appointed	Archbishop of Visakhapatnam, India
3 Apr 2025	70.7	Installed	Archbishop of Visakhapatnam, India

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Udumala Bala Showreddy
Archbishop Udumala Bala Showreddy
(born 18 Jun 1954)
Archbishop of Visakhapatnam

Ad Limina - September 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Ghanpur, Gudur
Ordained Bishop Fatima, Cathedral, Kazipet

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Oswald Cardinal Gracias
Archbishop of Bombay
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio
Titular Archbishop of Montemarano
Archbishop Thumma Bala †
Archbishop of Hyderabad

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Oswald Cardinal Gracias (1997)
Archbishop of Bombay
Archbishop Ivan Cornelius Dias † (1982)
Archbishop of Bombay
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
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 Prakash Sagili (2024)
Bishop Johannes Gorantla, O.C.D. (2024)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q15851945

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 13 Apr 2013
ob/c2: CB, 29 Apr 2013
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 214, Number 17,791
ab: Bollettino, 8 Feb 2025
i: CB, 20 Mar 2025

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