Bishop Pudhota Chinniah Balaswamy †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Nellore, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Oct 1928		Born
24 Apr 1955	26.5	Ordained Priest	Priest
17 Dec 1973	45.1	Appointed	Bishop of Nellore, India
19 Mar 1974	45.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Nellore, India
7 Dec 2006	78.1	Retired	Bishop of Nellore, India
24 Sep 2009	80.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Nellore, India

MicroData Summary
Pudhota Chinniah Balaswamy
Bishop Pudhota Chinniah Balaswamy
(born 10 Oct 1928, died 24 Sep 2009)
Bishop Emeritus of Nellore

Event Place
Birth Place Valarpuram
Ordained Bishop Madras, Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)

a priest for 54.4 years
a bishop for 35.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Anthony Rayappa Arulappa †
Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Saminini Arulappa †
Archbishop of Hyderabad
Bishop Bala Shoury Thumma †
Bishop Emeritus of Nellore

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Anthony Rayappa Arulappa † (1966)
Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Abraham Aruliah Somavarapa † (1977)
Bishop Doraboina Moses Prakasam (2002)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2117306

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 7 Dec 2006
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 200, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 30, Number 1,695

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