Bishop John Baptist Thakur, S.J.

Bishop Emeritus of Muzaffarpur, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Feb 1937		Born
19 Mar 1966	29.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Jesus
6 Mar 1980	43.0	Appointed	Bishop of Muzaffarpur, India
24 Jun 1980	43.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Muzaffarpur, India
11 Jul 2014	77.4	Retired	Bishop of Muzaffarpur, India

MicroData Summary
John Baptist Thakur
Bishop John Baptist Thakur S.J.
(born 8 Feb 1937)
Bishop Emeritus of Muzaffarpur

Ad Limina - May 2011: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Bettiah, Diocese of Patna
Ordained Bishop Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Bettiah, Diocese of Patna

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Muzaffarpur.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Lawrence Trevor Cardinal Picachy, S.J. †
Archbishop of Calcutta
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Pius Kerketta, S.J. †
Archbishop of Ranchi
Bishop Benedict John Osta, S.J. †
Bishop of Patna

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Lawrence Trevor Cardinal Picachy, S.J. † (1962)
Archbishop of Calcutta
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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:
Archbishop Victor Henry Thakur (1998)
Archbishop William D’Souza, S.J. (2006)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1699257

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 132
r: Bollettino, 11 Jul 2014
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 63, Number 4,911

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