Archbishop James Masilamony Arul Das †

Deceased

Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Jan 1930		Born
20 Dec 1955	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ootacamund, India
21 Dec 1973	43.9	Appointed	Bishop of Ootacamund, India
20 Feb 1974	44.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ootacamund, India
11 May 1994	64.3	Appointed	Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India
30 Aug 2004	74.6	Died	Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India

MicroData Summary
James Masilamony Arul Das
Archbishop James Masilamony Arul Das
(born 14 Jan 1930, died 30 Aug 2004)
Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)

Event Place
Birth Place Udhagamandalam
Ordained Bishop St. Mary's, Church, Ootacamund, Diocese of Ootacamund

a priest for 48.6 years
a bishop for 30.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Antony Padiyara †
Archbishop of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Packiam Arokiaswamy †
Archbishop of Bangalore
Bishop Savarinathen Iruthayaraj †
Bishop of Palayamkottai

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Antony Padiyara † (1955)
Archbishop of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar)
Bishop René-Jean-Baptiste-Germain Feuga, M.E.P. † (1941)
Bishop of Mysore
Archbishop Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. † (1931)
Titular Archbishop of Salamis
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Lawrence Pius Dorairaj (1999)
Bishop Neethinathan Anthonisamy (2002)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Roy † (1995)
Archbishop Antony Anandarayar † (1997)
Bishop Joseph Anthony Irudayaraj, S.D.B. † (1997)
Bishop Singaroyan Sebastianappan (2000)
Bishop Antony Devotta † (2001)
Bishop Thomas Aquinas Lephonse (2002)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q11716775

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 158, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 177, Necrology (back)
obc2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 24, Number 1,355

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