Bishop Visuvasam Selvaraj

Bishop of Port Blair, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Jan 1966		Born
8 May 1994	28.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Port Blair, India
2019¹	52.9	Appointed	Administrator of Port Blair, India
29 Jun 2021	55.4	Appointed	Bishop of Port Blair, India
21 Aug 2021	55.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Port Blair, India

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Visuvasam Selvaraj
Bishop Visuvasam Selvaraj
(born 4 Jan 1966)
Bishop of Port Blair

Ad Limina - September 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Raja Annamalaipuram, Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)
Ordained Bishop Stella Maris, Cathedral, Port Blair, Diocese of Port Blair

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Port Blair.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Aleixo das Neves Dias, S.F.X.
Bishop Emeritus of Port Blair
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli
Titular Archbishop of Capreae
Archbishop Felix Toppo, S.J.
Archbishop of Ranchi

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Aleixo das Neves Dias, S.F.X. (1985)
Bishop Emeritus of Port Blair
Archbishop Pius Kerketta, S.J. † (1961)
Archbishop of Ranchi
Pope John XXIII (1925)
(St. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli †)
Giovanni Cardinal Tacci (Porcelli) † (1895)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Amilcare Cardinal Malagola † (1876)
Archbishop of Fermo
Filippo Cardinal de Angelis † (1826)
Archbishop of Fermo
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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: Q107370922

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 29 Jun 2021
ob: CB, 31 Jul 2021
c2+: CB, 18 Aug 2021
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 249, Number 20,734

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