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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Head of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church from 1985 to 1996}}<br />
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{{Infobox Christian leader<br />
| type = Cardinal<br />
| honorific-prefix = [[Mar (title)|Mar]]<br />
| name = Mar Antony Padiyara<br>{{Lang|syc| ܡܸܛܪܵܦܘܿܠܝܼܛܵܐ ܘܬܲܪܐ ܕܟܠ ܗܸܢܕܘܿ }}<br />
| honorific-suffix = <br />
| title = [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|Cardinal]], [[List of major Archbishops of Ernakulam-Angamaly|Major Archbishop of Syro-Malabar Church]]<br />
| image = Mar Antony Padiyara photo 10.jpg<br />
| caption = <br />
| province = Metropolitan province of Ernakulam Angamaly<br />
| diocese = Ernakulam Angamaly<br />
| see = [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly|Ernakulam-Angamaly]]<br />
| enthroned = 23 April 1985<br />
| ended = 11 November 1996<br />
| predecessor = [[Mar Augustine Kandathil]] as the head of the Syro Malabar Church<br><br />
[[Joseph Parecattil]] as the Archbishop of Ernakulam<br />
| successor = [[Mar Varkey Vithayathil]]<br />
| ordination = 19 December 1945<br />
| consecration = 3 July 1955<br />
| cardinal = 28 June 1988<br />
| rank = [[Major Archbishop]]<br />
| birth_name = <br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1921|2|11}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Manimala]], [[Travancore]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2000|3|23|1921|2|11}}<br />
| death_place = [[Kakkanad]], Kerala, India<br />
| buried = <br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| religion = [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Church]]<br />
| module = {{Infobox Christian leader<br />
| type = Archbishop<br />
| honorific-suffix = Metropolitan Archbishop<br />
| title = [[Metropolitan Archbishop]] of [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Changanassery|Changanassery]]<br />
| province = Metropolitan province of Changanassery<br />
| diocese = Changanassery<br />
|appointed= 14 Jun 1970<br />
|term_end = 23 Apr 1985<br />
|predecessor = [[Mathew Kavukattu]]<br />
|successor = [[Joseph Powathil]]}}<br />
| previous_post = [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Ootacamund|Bishop of Ootacamund]] (1955–1970)<br>[[Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Changanassery|Archbishop of Changanassery]] (1970–1985)<br />
| module2 = {{Infobox Christian leader<br />
| type = bishop<br />
| title = [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Ootacamund|Bishop of Ootacamund]]<br />
|term_start = 3 Jul 1955<br />
|term_end = 14 Jun 1970<br />
|predecessor = Post established<br />
|successor = [[Packiam Arokiaswamy]]<br />
| province = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore|Latin Metropolitan province of Madras-Mylapore]]<br />
| diocese = Ootacamund}}<br />
}}<br />
{{Ordination<br />
| date of priestly ordination = 19 December 1945<br />
| place of priestly ordination = <br />
| consecrated by = Bishop René-Jean-Baptiste-Germain Feuga<br />
| co-consecrators = Francis Xavier Muthappa, Matthew Kavukattu<br />
| bishop 1 = Archbishop James Masilamony Arul Das<br />
| consecration date 1 = 1974<br />
| bishop 2 = Januarius Paul Palathuruthy<br />
| consecration date 2 = 1977<br />
| bishop 3 = [[Gregory Karotemprel]]<br />
| consecration date 3 = 1983<br />
| bishop 4 = [[Paul Chittilapilly]]<br />
| consecration date 4 = 1988<br />
| bishop 5 = Archbishop George Valiamattam<br />
| consecration date 5 = 1989<br />
| bishop 6 = Vijay Anand Nedumpuram<br />
| consecration date 6 = 1990<br />
| bishop 7 = Archbishop [[Abraham Kattumana]]<br />
| consecration date 7 = 1991<br />
| bishop 8 = [[Jacob Manathodath]]<br />
| consecration date 8 = 1992<br />
| bishop 9 = Simon Stock Palathara<br />
| consecration date 9 = 1993<br />
}}<br />
'''Antony Padiyara''' (11 February 1921 – 23 March 2000) was a [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Church|Syro-Malabar Catholic]] [[cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]] and the first [[List of major Archbishops of Ernakulam-Angamaly|Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly]]. Before serving as Major Archbishop from 1985 to 1996, he previously served as [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Ootacamund|Bishop of Ootacamund]] (1955–1970) and [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Changanassery|Archbishop of Changanassery]] (1970–1985). He was elevated as cardinal in 1988.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Born in [[Manimala]], [[Travancore]], Antony Padiyara got his primary education from [[St. Berchmans Higher Secondary School|SB English High School Changanasserry]] and later studied in St. Peter's Regional Seminary in [[Bangalore]] and was [[Holy orders|ordained]] to the priesthood on 19 December 1945.<ref name=hierarchy>{{cite news|work=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|title=Antony Cardinal Padiyara|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpadiyara.html}}</ref> He was [[Incardination and excardination|incardinated]] into the [[Latin Church]] [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Coimbatore|Diocese of Coimbatore]], where he served as [[curate]] at [[Peria Kodiveri]] and pastor at [[Kollegal]] and [[Ootacamund]] between 1946 and 1952.<ref name=miranda>{{cite news|work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church|title=PADIYARA, Antony|url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios-p.htm#Padiyara|last=Miranda|first=Salvador|archive-date=31 January 2011|access-date=17 July 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131203917/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-p.htm#Padiyara|url-status=live}}</ref> He became [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] of the [[minor seminary]] in 1952 and a professor at St. Peter's Regional Seminary in 1954.<ref name=miranda/><br />
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On 3 July 1955, Padiyara was appointed [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Ootacamund|Bishop of Ootacamund]] by [[Pope Pius XII]].<ref name=hierarchy/> He received his [[Bishop (Catholic Church)|episcopal consecration]] on the following 16 October from Bishop René-Jean-Baptiste-Germain Feuga, with Bishop Francis Xavier Muthappa and Archbishop Matthew Kavukattu serving as [[Consecrator|co-consecrators]].<ref name=hierarchy/> After attending the [[Second Vatican Council]] from 1962 to 1965, Padiyara returned to the [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Church]]. On 13 June 1970 he was promoted to [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Changanassery|Archbishop of Changanassery]].<ref name=hierarchy/> He was elected [[Vice president|Vice President]] of the [[Catholic Bishops' Conference of India|Indian Episcopal Conference]] (1976), President of the [[Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council]] (1983), and President of the Syro-Malabar Bishops Conference (1984).<ref name=miranda/> In one of the acts of his [[List of popes by length of reign#Popes with the shortest reigns|short-lived papacy]], [[Pope John Paul I]] named him [[Apostolic visitor]] to the Syro-Malabar Catholics in Kerala on 8 September 1978.<ref name=miranda/><br />
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Padiyara was appointed [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly|Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly]] by [[Pope John Paul II]] on 23 April 1985.<ref name=hierarchy/> He was created [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal priest]] of [[Santa Maria Regina Pacis a Monte Verde|S. Maria "Regina Pacis" a Monte Verde]] in the [[Papal consistory|consistory]] of 28 June 1988. When the [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly|Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly]] was elevated to the rank of a [[Major archbishop|major archdiocese]] on 16 December 1992, Padiyara became a [[Major archbishop|Major Archbishop]] and thus head of the [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Church]].<ref name=hierarchy/> During this period, the powers of [[Major Archbishop]] were also vested in the [[Pontifical Delegate]] [[Mar Abraham Kattumana]] (1992–1995). Within the [[Roman Curia]], he was a member of the [[Congregation for the Oriental Churches]] and the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the [[Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches|Code of Oriental Canon Law]].<ref name=school>{{cite news|work=Cardinal Padiyara Public School|title=About us|url=http://www.cardinalpadiyarapublicschool.org/about_us.php|access-date=17 July 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424061703/http://cardinalpadiyarapublicschool.org/about_us.php|archive-date=24 April 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> After reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75, he resigned as Major Archbishop on 11 November 1996, after eleven years of service. He was awarded the [[Padma Shri]] in 1998.<ref name=miranda/><br />
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He later died at the Cardinal Padiyara Nature Cure Centre in [[Kakkanad]], which he himself had founded, aged 79. He is buried in [[St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica, Ernakulam|St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica]] in [[Ernakulam]].<ref name=miranda/><br />
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