Archbishop Louis Mathias, S.D.B. †

Deceased

Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Jul 1887		Born
May 1905³	17.7	Professed	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
20 Jul 1913	26.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
15 Dec 1922	35.4	Appointed	Prefect of Assam, India
9 Jul 1934	46.9	Appointed	Bishop of Shillong, India
10 Nov 1934	47.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Shillong, India
25 Mar 1935	47.6	Appointed	Archbishop of Madras, India
13 Nov 1952	65.3	Appointed	Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India
3 Aug 1965	78.0	Died	Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Louis Mathias
Archbishop Louis Mathias S.D.B.
(born 20 Jul 1887, died 3 Aug 1965)
Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Paris, Archdiocese of Paris, France
Ordained Bishop Outdoors, Shillong, Diocese of Shillong
Death Place Legnano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy

a priest for 52.0 years
a bishop for 30.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Ferdinand Périer, S.J. †
Archbishop of Calcutta
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Alfred-Arthur Le Pailleur, C.S.C. †
Bishop of Chittagong
Bishop Giovanni Battista Anselmo, P.I.M.E. †
Bishop of Dinajpur

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop Thomas Pothacamury (Pothakamuri) † (1940)
Bishop Joseph-Alphonse Baud, M.S.F.S. † (1942)
Bishop Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram † (1953)
Bishop Pablo Mariaselvam, S.D.B. † (1953)
Bishop Francis Arthur Carvalho † (1953)
Bishop David Maryanayagam Swamidoss Pillat, S.D.B. † (1956)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Manuel de Medeiros Guerreiro † (1937)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 263612288
WikiData: Q1350754

Source(s):

c2+: LC
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1934, Number 77

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