Bishop Mathew Vattackuzhy †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar), India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Feb 1930		Born
1 Jun 1956	26.2	Ordained Priest	Priest
20 Dec 1986	56.8	Appointed	Bishop of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar), India
26 Feb 1987	57.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar), India
23 Dec 2000	70.8	Resigned	Bishop of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar), India
22 Nov 2016	86.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar), India

MicroData Summary
Mathew Vattackuzhy
Bishop Mathew Vattackuzhy
(born 20 Feb 1930, died 22 Nov 2016)
Bishop Emeritus of Kanjirapally

Event Place
Birth Place Chenkal
Ordained Bishop Kanjirapally, Eparchy of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar)

a priest for 60.4 years
a bishop for 29.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Joseph Powathil †
Archbishop of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Kuriakose Kunnacherry †
Bishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar)
Bishop Joseph Pallikaparampil
Bishop of Palai (Syro-Malabar)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Jose Pulickal (1991)
Archbishop Sebastian Vaniyapurackal (1992)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
George Cardinal Alencherry (1997)
Bishop Mathew Arackal (2001)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1670309

Source(s):

d: CB, 22 Nov 2016
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 103, Number 8,960

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