Savarinathen Iruthayaraj (14 July 1927 in

Ooty Ooty (; officially Udagamandalam (), Anglicisation, anglicized: Ootacamund , abbreviated as Udagai, ) is a town and municipality in the Nilgiris district of the Indian States and territories of India, state of Tamil Nadu. It is located north ...

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– 18 October 2001) was an Indian cleric and

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of the

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Biography

Iruthayaraj was born on 14 July 1927 in

, in the Indian state of

. He received the

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on 20 December 1959. On 17 May 1973,

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appointed him as Bishop of the newly created Diocese of Palayamkottai. The Archbishop of Madurai, Justin Diraviam, bestowed episcopal ordination on 12 September of the same year; co-consecrators were the Archbishop of Bangalore,

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, and the Archbishop of Changanacherry,

Antony Padiyara Antony Padiyara (11 February 1921 – 23 March 2000) was a Syro-Malabar Catholic cardinal and the first Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly. Before serving as Major Archbishop from 1985 to 1996, he previously served as Bishop of Ootacamund ...

. On 15 July 1999, Iruthayaraj resigned as Bishop of Palayamkottai. He died on 18 October 2001.

References

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