Bishop Lawrence Pius Dorairaj

Bishop of Dharmapuri, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Jun 1954		Born
28 Dec 1981	27.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India
28 Nov 1998	44.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India
28 Nov 1998	44.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Absa Salla
21 Feb 1999	44.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Absa Salla
13 Jan 2012	57.5	Appointed	Bishop of Dharmapuri, India
9 Mar 2020	65.7	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Salem, India
4 Aug 2021	67.1	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Salem, India

MicroData Summary
Lawrence Pius Dorairaj
Bishop Lawrence Pius Dorairaj
(born 14 Jun 1954)
Bishop of Dharmapuri

Ad Limina - June 2011: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Madras, Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)
Ordained Bishop Open Air, St. Bede's School, Madras, Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Dharmapuri.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Masilamony Arul Das †
Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Ambrose Mathalaimuthu †
Bishop of Coimbatore
Bishop Malayappan Chinnappa, S.D.B.
Bishop of Vellore

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop James Masilamony Arul Das † (1974)
Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)
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

Ordained Priest:
Father Susai Jesu, O.M.I. (2000)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Sebastian (Jobby) Pozholiparampil (2017)
Bishop Arulselvam Rayappan (2021)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 189515710
WikiData: Q1809239

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 154, Number 13,483
ab: Bollettino, 13 Jan 2012
ab: CB, 9 Mar 2020
bpd/opd: CB, 20 Nov 2025

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