Peter Fernando

Peter Feranado is a Roman Catholic prelate from India.

Early Life

Bishop Peter Feranado 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.[1]

Episcopal Ministry

On 23 February 1996, Bishop Peter Fernando was appointed coadjutor 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.[1] He was appointed as the apostolic administrator of the diocese of Trichy.[2] He then served as archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madurai from 2003 to 2014.[3] He died on 31 December 2016.[1]

Notes
  1. "Archbishop Peter Fernando [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  2. "History - Trichy diocese". Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  3. "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Madurai, India". gcatholic.org. Retrieved 1 January 2017.


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