Archbishop Alphonsus Mathias †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Jun 1928		Born
24 Aug 1954	26.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mangalore, India
16 Nov 1963	35.4	Appointed	Bishop of Chikmagalur, India
5 Feb 1964	35.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Chikmagalur, India
12 Sep 1986	58.2	Appointed	Archbishop of Bangalore, India
3 Dec 1986	58.4	Installed	Archbishop of Bangalore, India
24 Mar 1998	69.7	Resigned	Archbishop of Bangalore, India
10 Jul 2024	96.0	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore, India

MicroData Summary for Alphonsus Mathias
(WikiData: Q771052)
Archbishop Alphonsus Mathias (born 22 Jun 1928, died 10 Jul 2024) Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore

Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Pangala, Diocese of Mangalore
Ordained Priest Kandy, Prefecture Apostolic of Parakou, Benin
Ordained Bishop Saint Joseph, Cathedral, Chikmagalur, Diocese of Chikmagalur
Death Place St. John's Medical College, Bangalore, Archdiocese of Bangalore

a priest for 69.8 years
a bishop for 60.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Robert Knox †
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Albert Vincent D’Souza †
Archbishop of Calcutta
Bishop Raymond D’Mello †
Bishop of Mangalore

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Joseph Susainathan (Soosainathan) (1990)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Francis Michaelappa † (1987)
Bishop John Baptist Sequeira † (1987)
Archbishop Ignatius Paul Pinto † (1989)
Bishop Joseph D’Silva † (1993)
Bishop Joseph Roy † (1995)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Basil Salvadore D’Souza † (1965)
Maurice Evenor Cardinal Piat, C.S.Sp. (1991)
Bishop Aloysius Paul D’Souza (1996)

Source(s):

c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 80, Deceased Cardinals (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1964, Number 12
d: CB, 10 Jul 2024

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