https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Mariadas_Kagithapu 2026-09-07T10:58:01Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.6 https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mariadas_Kagithapu&diff=50314&oldid=prev 2021-04-05T20:14:38Z

<p>removed <a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:Indian_Roman_Catholic_archbishops&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Indian Roman Catholic archbishops (page does not exist)">Category:Indian Roman Catholic archbishops</a>; added <a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:21st-century_Roman_Catholic_archbishops_in_India&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in India (page does not exist)">Category:21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in India</a> using <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:HC" class="extiw" title="wp:HC">HotCat</a></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Mariadas Kagithapu&#039;&#039;&#039; (7 September 1936 &amp;ndash; 26 February 2018) was a [[Roman Catholic]] archbishop.<br /> <br /> Archbishop Kagithapu Mariadas was born on 7 September, 1936 in [[Gnanapuram]] in [[Visakhapatnam]] Diocese. He was ordained a priest on 10 June, 1961 in the Congregation of Missionaries of Francis de Sales. Pope Paul VI appointed him as the fourth Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Guntur]] on 19 December, 1974 and ordained as Bishop on 5 May, 1977 by Cardinal Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy. Pope John Paul II appointed him as the Bishop of Visakhapatnam on 10 September 1982 and he was installed on 26 January, 1983.<br /> <br /> With the elevation to the Archdiocese on 16 October 2001 he was appointed Archbishop of Visakhapatnam. Before becoming a prelate, Archbishop Mariadas was a professor at St. Peter&#039;s Seminary in Bangalore. On 3 July, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI accepted his resignation from the pastoral care of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam|Diocese of Visakhapatnam]].&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/visa0.htm# Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam]&lt;/ref&gt; He was a priest for 56 years and a bishop for 40 years.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkagi.html]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> As a tradition Archbishop Kagithapu Mariadas&#039;s burial took place in St. Peter&#039;s Cathedral in [[Gnanapuram]], [[Visakhapatnam]] on 28 February, 2018.<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{Subject bar |portal1= Biography |portal2= Catholicism |portal3= India}}<br /> {{Authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Kagithapu, Mariadas}}<br /> [[Category:1936 births]]<br /> [[Category:2018 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in India]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{India-RC-archbishop-stub}}</div>

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