Archbishop Abraham Viruthakulangara †

Deceased

Archbishop of Nagpur, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Jun 1943		Born
28 Oct 1969	26.3	Ordained Priest	Priest
4 Mar 1977	33.7	Appointed	Bishop of Khandwa, India
13 Jul 1977	34.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Khandwa, India
17 Jan 1998	54.6	Appointed	Archbishop of Nagpur, India
19 Apr 2018	74.8	Died	Archbishop of Nagpur, India

MicroData Summary
Abraham Viruthakulangara
Archbishop Abraham Viruthakulangara
(born 5 Jun 1943, died 19 Apr 2018)
Archbishop of Nagpur

Ad Limina - September 2011: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Kallara
Ordained Bishop Indore, Diocese of Indore
Death Place CBCI Centre, New Delhi

a priest for 48.4 years
a bishop for 40.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Eugene Louis D’Souza, M.S.F.S. †
Archbishop of Bhopal
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop George Marian Anathil, S.V.D. †
Bishop of Indore
Bishop Kuriakose Kunnacherry †
Bishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Eugene Louis D’Souza, M.S.F.S. † (1951)
Archbishop of Bhopal
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:
Archbishop Leo Cornelio, S.V.D. (1999)
Bishop Lourdunada Daniel (2007)
Bishop Thomas Thennatt, S.A.C. † (2017)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Kunnath, C.M.I. (1999)
Archbishop Thomas Ignatius Macwan (2003)
Bishop Devprasad John Ganawa, S.V.D. (2009)
Archbishop Alangaram Arockia Sebastian Durairaj, S.V.D. (2009)
Archbishop Elias Joseph Gonsalves (2012)
Bishop Ephrem Nariculam (2014)
Bishop Ambrose Rebello (2015)
Bishop Basil Bhuriya, S.V.D. † (2015)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q330683

Source(s):

d: CB, 18 Apr 2018
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 238, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 43, Number 2,874

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