Antony Padiyara
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His Eminent Beatitude Mar Antony Padiyara |
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| Cardinal, Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly | |
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| See | Ernakulam-Angamaly |
| Installed | 23 April 1985 |
| Predecessor | Mar Joseph Parecattil |
| Successor | Maran Mar Varkey Vithayathil |
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Bishop of Ootacamund (1955–1970) Archbishop of Changanassery (1970–1985) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 19 December 1945 |
| Consecration | 3 July 1955 |
| Created Cardinal | 28 June 1988 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
11 February 1921 Manimala, Travancore |
| Died | 23 March 2000 (aged 79) Kakkanad, Kerala, India |
| Nationality | India |
| Denomination | Syro-Malabar Catholic Church |
Cardinal Antony I Padiyara (11 February 1921 – 23 March 2000) was a Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal. He was the First Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. He was Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly from 1985 to 1996, having previously served as Bishop of Ootacamund (1955–1970) and Archbishop of Changanassery (1970–1985). He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1988.
Born in Manimala, Travancore, Antony Padiyara studied at St. Peter's Regional Seminary in Bangalore and was ordained to the priesthood on 19 December 1945. He was incardinated into the Latin Rite Diocese of Coimbatore, where he served as curate at Peria Kodiveri and pastor at Kollegal and Ootacamund between 1946 and 1952. He became rector of the minor seminary in 1952 and a professor at St. Peter's Regional Seminary in 1954.
On 3 July 1955, Padiyara was appointed Bishop of Ootacamund by Pope Pius XII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 16 October from Bishop René-Jean-Baptiste-Germain Feuga, with Bishop Francis Xavier Muthappa and Archbishop Matthew Kavukattu serving as co-consecrators. After attending the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, Padiyara returned to the Syro-Malabar Rite upon being promoted to Archbishop of Changanassery on 13 June 1970. He was elected Vice President of the Indian Episcopal Conference (1976), President of the Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council (1983), and President of the Syro-Malabar Bishops Conference (1984). In one of the acts of his short-lived papacy, Pope John Paul I named him Apostolic visitor to the Syro-Malabar Catholics in Kerala on 8 September 1978.
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