Lawrence Trevor Picachy

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Lawrence Trevor Cardinal Picachy SJ (born August 7, 1916 in Darjiling , India , † November 29, 1992 in Calcutta ) was Archbishop of Calcutta .

Life

Lawrence Trevor Picachy entered the Jesuit order in 1934 and studied Catholic theology in various houses . He received on 21 November 1947, the sacrament of Holy Orders , and then worked as a parish pastor. From 1950 he was employed in Calcutta as a lecturer and seminar leader in the training of the next generation of priests.

Pope John XXIII appointed him bishop of Jamshedpur in 1962 . On September 9, 1962, James Robert Knox , Titular Archbishop of Melitene and Apostolic Internuncio in India, donated him the episcopal ordination . Co- consecrators were Pius Kerketta SJ , Archbishop of Ranchi , and Augustine Francis Wildermuth SJ, Bishop of Patna . Lawrence Trevor Picachy attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 . Pope Paul VI In 1969 he made him head of the Archdiocese of Calcutta and accepted him into the College of Cardinals in 1976 as a cardinal priest with the titular church Sacro Cuore Immacolato di Maria ai Parioli . Lawrence Trevor Picachy resigned the leadership of the Archdiocese of Calcutta in 1986 due to illness. He died on November 29, 1992 in Calcutta and was buried on the grounds of his order in Thakurpukur.

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predecessor Office successor
New diocese established Bishop of Jamshedpur
1962–1969
Joseph Robert Rodericks SJ
Albert Vincent D'Souza Archbishop of Calcutta
1969–1986
Henry Sebastian D'Souza