Bishop Abraham Aruliah Somavarapa †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Cuddapah, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Nov 1930		Born
23 Apr 1959	28.4	Ordained Priest	Priest
28 Oct 1976	45.9	Appointed	Bishop of Cuddapah, India
20 Apr 1977	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Cuddapah, India
24 Jan 1998	67.1	Resigned	Bishop of Cuddapah, India
31 Jul 2003	72.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Cuddapah, India

MicroData Summary
Abraham Aruliah Somavarapa
Bishop Abraham Aruliah Somavarapa
(born 16 Nov 1930, died 31 Jul 2003)
Bishop Emeritus of Cuddapah

Event Place
Birth Place Molasur
Ordained Bishop N.D. de Bonne Sante, Vailankanni

a priest for 44.2 years
a bishop for 26.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram †
Bishop of Tanjore
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Ignatius Gopu, M.S.F.S. †
Bishop of Visakhapatnam
Bishop Pudhota Chinniah Balaswamy †
Bishop of Nellore

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram † (1953)
Bishop of Tanjore
Archbishop Louis Mathias, S.D.B. † (1934)
Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)
Archbishop Ferdinand Périer, S.J. † (1921)
Archbishop of Calcutta
Archbishop Pietro Pisani † (1919)
Titular Archbishop of Constantia in Scythia
Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.Ss.R. † (1918)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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

Ordained Priest:
Anthony Cardinal Poola (1992)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1967339

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 173, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 42, Number 2,813

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