Justin Diraviam

Justin Diraviam (born April 8, 1907 in Palakurichi, British India, January 25, 1991) was Archbishop of Madurai. Edit LifeQualtext

Justin Diraviam received the sacrament of priestly ordination on April 6, 1935.

On April 13, 1967, Pope Paul VI appointed the archbishop of Madurai. The Internuntius in British India, Archbishop James Robert Knox, gave him the bishops' ordination on the 9th July of that year; Co-conspirators were the bishop of Tiruchirappalli, James Mendonca, and the emeritus archbishop of Madurai, Jean Pierre Leonard SJ.

On 3 December 1984, Pope John Paul II adopted the motion for resignation brought forward by Justin Diraviam for reasons of age. Weblinks Edit sourcetext Standard data (person): Wikipedia person search | No GND person record. Last review: 15 December 2016.

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