Aesu Malayappan Chinnappa or A. M. Chinnappa is the Archbishop Emeritus of Madras-Mylapore and the Founder of the Society of God's Reign (Currently a Public Association). He was formerly Bishop of
Vellore
Vellore ( ), also spelled Velur, is a sprawling city and the administrative headquarters of Vellore district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the Palar River and surrounded by the Javadi Hills in the northeastern ...
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Biography
Chinnappa was born on 23 July 1937 at Ayandur which was then a substation of
Mugaiyur
Mugaiyur is one of the blocks in Viluppuram District, Tamil Nadu, India.
Etymology
The name Mugaiyur means ''mugai'' (bud) ''+ oor'' (a small settlement or village).
Politics
The Mugaiyur assembly constituency has been clubbed into the Tirukoi ...
Salesians of Don Bosco
The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), formally known as the Society of Saint Francis de Sales (), is a religious congregation of men in the Catholic Church, founded in 1859 by the Italian priest John Bosco to help poor and migrant youth during the ...
Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy
Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy (5 February 1924 – 2 June 2014) was an Indian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was the Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches in the Roman Curia and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1985. His ...
. During his time there, he built a new cathedral.
On 1 April 2005 he was appointed as the Archbishop of Madras-Mylapore, the post he held until his retirement on 12 November 2012.
He has held the post of Chairman of the Catholic Bishop's Conference of India Commission on Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes.UCA News website, ''Archbishop Emeritus Chinnappa Malayappan'' /ref>
On August 24, 2011 he founded a Religious Institute called the ''Society of God's Reign''.