Archbishop Kuriakose Bharanikulangara

Archbishop of Faridabad (Syro-Malabar), India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Feb 1959		Born
18 Dec 1983	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ernakulam (Syro-Malabar), India
6 Mar 2012	53.0	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Faridabad (Syro-Malabar), India
26 May 2012	53.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Faridabad (Syro-Malabar), India
27 May 2012	53.3	Installed	Bishop of Faridabad (Syro-Malabar), India
28 Aug 2025	66.5	Appointed	Archbishop of Faridabad (Syro-Malabar), India
2 Nov 2025	66.7	Installed	Archbishop of Faridabad (Syro-Malabar), India

MicroData Summary
Kuriakose Bharanikulangara
Archbishop Kuriakose Bharanikulangara
(born 1 Feb 1959)
Archbishop of Faridabad

Ad Limina - October 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Karippassery
Ordained Priest St. Joseph's Pontifical, Seminary, Alwaye, Archeparchy of Ernakulam (Syro-Malabar)
Ordained Bishop Thyagaraj, Stadium, New Delhi, Archdiocese of Delhi

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archeparchy of Faridabad (Syro-Malabar).

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Sebastian Mankuzhikary †
Titular Bishop of Arethusa dei Siri
Principal Consecrator:
George Cardinal Alencherry
Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Vincent Michael Concessao
Archbishop of Delhi
Bishop Thomas Chakiath
Titular Bishop of Uzippari

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

George Cardinal Alencherry (1997)
Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar)
Archbishop Joseph Powathil † (1972)
Archbishop of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar)
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
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

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/273827
VIAF: 234016393
WikiData: Q594460

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 6 Mar 2012
ob/c2+/i: CB, 4 May 2012
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 210, Number 17,439
c1/opd: CB, 21 Apr 2024
ab: Bollettino, 28 Aug 2025
i: CB, 5 Oct 2025

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