Bishop James Anthony Toppo †

Deceased

Bishop of Jalpaiguri, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 May 1930		Born
10 Aug 1960	30.2	Ordained Priest	Priest
24 Apr 1971	40.9	Appointed	Bishop of Jalpaiguri, India
17 Oct 1971	41.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Jalpaiguri, India
4 May 2004	74.0	Died	Bishop of Jalpaiguri, India

MicroData Summary
James Anthony Toppo
Bishop James Anthony Toppo
(born 3 May 1930, died 4 May 2004)
Bishop of Jalpaiguri

Event Place
Birth Place Silphari (Katkahi)
Ordained Bishop Dem Dima

a priest for 43.7 years
a bishop for 32.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Lawrence Trevor Picachy, S.J. †
Archbishop of Calcutta
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Pius Kerketta, S.J. †
Archbishop of Ranchi
Bishop Francis Ekka †
Bishop of Raigarh-Ambikapur

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Lawrence Trevor 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:
Bishop Joseph Minj † (1993)
Bishop Stephen Lepcha (1997)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2733164

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 132
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 177, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 24, Number 1,345

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