Bishop Joseph Raja Rao Thelegathoti, S.M.M.

Bishop of Vijayawada, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Mar 1952		Born
31 Jan 1980	27.8	Solemn Vows	Member of Missionaries of the Company of Mary
7 Jun 1980	28.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of the Company of Mary
19 Dec 2015	63.7	Appointed	Bishop of Vijayawada, India
2 Feb 2016	63.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Vijayawada, India

MicroData Summary
Joseph Raja Rao Thelegathoti
Bishop Joseph Raja Rao Thelegathoti S.M.M.
(born 8 Mar 1952)
Bishop of Vijayawada

Ad Limina - September 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Peddautapally
Ordained Bishop Grounds of, Bishop Grassi High School, Gunadata, Diocese of Vijayawada

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Vijayawada.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio
Titular Archbishop of Montemarano
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Thumma Bala †
Archbishop of Hyderabad
Archbishop Prakash Mallavarapu †
Archbishop of Visakhapatnam

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio (1999)
Titular Archbishop of Montemarano
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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: Q23061724

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 19 Dec 2015
ob: CB, 9 Jan 2016
c2+: CB, 27 Jan 2016
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 227, Number 18,836

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