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Sebastian Thekethecheril
Sebastian Thekethecheril (born 30 July 1954) is an Indian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a .... Thekethecheril was ordained a priest on 18 December 1980. He was appointed to the Diocese of Vijayapuram and was ordained a bishop on 2 July 2006. External linksCatholic-Hierarchy [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Vijayapuram
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vijayapuram ( la, Viiayapuramen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Kottayam in the Ecclesiastical province of Verapoly in India. History The Diocese of Vijayapuram was established on 14 July 1930 from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Verapoly. Leadership * Bishops of Vijayapuram (Roman Rite) ** Bishop Sebastian Thekethecheril (8 May 2006 – present) ** Bishop Peter Thuruthikonam (5 May 1988 – 8 May 2006) ** Bishop Cornelius Elanjikal (later Archbishop) (16 January 1971 – 26 January 1987) ** Bishop John Ambrose Abasolo y Lecue, O.C.D. (25 December 1949 – 16 January 1971) ** Bishop Domenico Grassi, P.I.M.E. (3 December 1938 – 9 May 1951) ** Bishop Domenico Grassi, P.I.M.E. (Apostolic Administrator 13 April 1937 – 3 December 1938) ** Bishop Domenico Grassi, P.I.M.E. (1933 – 13 April 1937) ** Bishop Juan Vicente Arana Idígoras, O.C.D. (24 March 1931 – 14 June 1946) History By the apostolic Bull ''Ad Christi Nomen'', Pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 ''sui iuris'' churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and eparchies located around the world. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the chief pastor of the church. The bishopric of Rome, known as the Holy See, is the central governing authority of the church. The administrative body of the Holy See, the Roman Curia, has its principal offices in Vatican City, a small enclave of the Italian city of Rome, of which the pope is head of state. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The Catholic Church teaches that it is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Thuruthikonam
Peter Thuruthkonam (1 August 1929 – 5 September 2011) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vijayapuram The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vijayapuram ( la, Viiayapuramen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Kottayam in the Ecclesiastical province of Verapoly in India. History The Diocese of Vijayapuram was established on 14 July 1930 from the ..., India. He was born at Vallamkulam, Thiruvalla. He was ordained as a priest on 12 March 1959. He was ordained as the Bishop of the Diocese of Vijayapuram on 4 August 1988. He retired from his office in 2006. He is the first bishop from the Diocese of Vijayapuram. Ordained to the priesthood in 1959 for the Vijayapuram Diocese, Thuruthknam was appointed bishop of the diocese and retired in 2006. Notes 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in India 1929 births 2011 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in India {{india-RC-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of India
The national flag of India, Colloquialism, colloquially called the tricolour, is a horizontal rectangular tricolour flag of Saffron (color)#India saffron, India saffron, white and Variations of green#India green, India green; with the ', a 24-spoke wheel, in navy blue at its centre. It was adopted in its present form during a meeting of the Constituent Assembly of India, Constituent Assembly held on 22 July 1947, and it became the official flag of the Dominion of India on 15 August 1947. The flag was subsequently retained as that of the Republic of India. In India, the term "tricolour (flag), tricolour" almost always refers to the Indian national flag. The flag is based on the ' flag, a flag of the Indian National Congress designed by Pingali Venkayya. By law, the flag is to be made of ', a special type of hand-spun cloth or silk, made popular by Mahatma Gandhi. The manufacturing process and specifications for the flag are laid out by the Bureau of Indian Standards. The right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prelate
A prelate () is a high-ranking member of the Christian clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin , the past participle of , which means 'carry before', 'be set above or over' or 'prefer'; hence, a prelate is one set over others. The archetypal prelate is a bishop, whose prelature is his particular church. All other prelates, including the regular prelates such as abbots and major superiors, are based upon this original model of prelacy. Related terminology In a general sense, a "prelate" in the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian churches is a bishop or other ecclesiastical person who possesses ordinary authority of a jurisdiction, i.e., of a diocese or similar jurisdiction, e.g., ordinariates, apostolic vicariates/ exarchates, or territorial abbacies. It equally applies to cardinals, who enjoy a kind of "co-governance" of the church as the most senior ecclesiastical advisers and moral representatives of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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