https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Peter_Fernando 2026-10-21T08:52:16Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.6 https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Fernando&diff=50524&oldid=prev 2021-04-05T20:08:18Z

<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>&#039;&#039;&#039;Peter Fernando&#039;&#039;&#039; was a Roman Catholic prelate from India.<br /> <br /> ==Early life==<br /> Bishop Peter Fernando was a [[Roman Catholic]] bishop who was born in Idinthakarai, a coastal village of the district of Tirunelveli and a parish of Roman Catholic diocese of Tuticorin on 22 March 1939. He was ordained a priest for the diocese of Tuticorin on 31 May 1971.&lt;ref name=&quot;catholic-hierarchy.org&quot;&gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bferpe.html|title=Archbishop Peter Fernando [Catholic-Hierarchy]|website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org|accessdate=10 April 2019}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Episcopal Ministry==<br /> On 23 February 1996, Bishop Peter Fernando was appointed coadjutor bishop of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Tuticorin]], India and was ordained bishop on 29 May 1996; he succeeded Bishop Siluvaimathu Teresanathan Amalnather and served as diocesan bishop of the Tuticorin Diocese from 1999 to 2004.&lt;ref name=&quot;catholic-hierarchy.org&quot;/&gt; He was appointed as the apostolic administrator of the diocese of Trichy.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.trichydiocese.org/history/|title=History - Trichy diocese|publisher=|accessdate=10 April 2019}}&lt;/ref&gt; He then served as archbishop of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madurai]] from 2003 to 2014.&lt;ref name=&quot;gcatholic&quot;&gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/madu0.htm|publisher=gcatholic.org|title=Metropolitan Archdiocese of Madurai, India|accessdate=1 January 2017}}&lt;/ref&gt; He died on 31 December 2016.&lt;ref name=&quot;catholic-hierarchy.org&quot;/&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://cbci.in/ImageGallery/full/FsPk16111215664.jpg Bishop Peter Fernando]<br /> <br /> {{authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Fernando, Peter}}<br /> [[Category:1939 births]]<br /> [[Category:2016 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in India]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{India-RC-archbishop-stub}}</div>

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