CHANGES TO THE d'ESTOUTEVILLE LINE 

At a time when the four minor Roman rite lines have been slowly decreasing, I am pleased to announce that the largest of the four, the d’Estouteville line, has more than doubled in size, from twenty-two bishops to forty-nine bishops.

One can legitimately ask how this could occur so quickly and the answer is:  it did not. These twenty seven bishops were always in the d’Estouteville line, but a document with erroneous information placed them in the Rebiba line.  Last month I found a document from the Archivo General de Indias – a letter from Bishop Juan de la Fuente Yepes, Bishop of Nueva Segovia, The Philippines, from 1753 to 1757, in which he mentioned  the date and place of his episcopal ordination and the name of his ordaining bishop. This first-hand account replaces a document from 1753 emanating from Manila which stated that he had been ordained by the then archbishop of Manila.  Having been preconized on May 28 1753, his bulls could not have arrived before the end of that year. His ordaining bishop, who was named in February 1754 only reached the Mexico City area where he was ordained in late October 1754.

The change in his ordaining bishop moved him from the Rebiba line to the d’Estouteville line and it also caused changes in the lineages of one hundred and eleven bishops, twenty seven of them still living.  The names of the twenty seven bishops are below, followed by the names of the other twenty two bishops in the d’Estouteville line. .

Mariadas Kagithapu, M.S.F.S., Archbishop emeritus of Visakhapatnam

Michael Augustine, Archbishop emeritus of Pondicherry and Cuddalore

Malayappan Chinnappa, S.D.B., Archbishop emeritus of Madras and Mylapore

Francis Kallarakal, Archbishop emeritus of Verapoly

Maria Callist Soosa Packiam, Archbishop of Triandrum of the Latins

Antony Ananadarayar, Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore

Vincent Louis Marie Landel, S.C.J. de Beth., Archbishop of Rabat

Pierre Antoine Jean Bach, M.E.P., Titular Bishop of Tituli in Proconsulari and former Vicar

  Apostolic of Savannakhet, Laos

George Yod Phimphisan, C.Ss.R., Bishop emeritus of Udon Thani, Thailand

Joseph Luechai Thatwisai, Bishop of Udon Thani, Thailand

Philip Banchong Chaiyara, C.Ss.R., Bishop of Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

Sebastian Thekethecheril, Bishop of Vijayapuram

Selvister Ponnumuthan, Bishop of Punalur

Christudas Rajappan, Titular Bishop of Avitta Bibba, Auxiliary of Trivandrum of the Latins

Mathew Cheriannkunnel, P.I.M.E., Bishop emeritus of Kurnool

Innayya Chinna Addagatla, Bishop of Srikakulam

Paul Maipan, Bishop of Khammam

Singaroyan Sebastianappan, Bishop of Salem

Edward Francis, Bishop of Sivagangai

Peter Remigius, Bishop of Kottar

Jerome Das Varuvel, S.D.B., Bishop of Kuzhithurai

Amalraj Arulappan, Bishop of Ootacamund

Soundaraj Periyanayagam, S.D.B., Bishop of Vellore

Antonysamy Francis, Bishop of Kumbakonam

Joseph Anthony Irudayaraj, S.D.B., Bishop emeritus of Dharamapuri

Devadoss Ambrose Mariadoss, Bishop of Tanjore

Antony Devotta, Bishop of Tiruchirapalli

and the other twenty two:

*Bernard Aubertin, O.Cist., Archbishop of Tours
*Armand Maillard, Archbishop of Bourges
*Guy Thomazeau, Archbishop emeritus of Montpellier
*Laurent Ulrich, Archbishop of Lille
*Pierre Plateau, Archbishop emeritus of Bourges
*Hubert Barbier, Archbishop emeritus of Bourges
*Jean-Christophe Lagleize, Bishop of Metz
*Jean-Marie Le Vert, Bishop emeritus of Quimper
*Gilbert Louis, Bishop emeritus of Châlons
*Michel Pansard, Bishop of Chartres
*Alain Planet, Bishop of Carcassonne et Narbonne
*Yves Boivineau, Bishop of Annecy
*Bernard Housset, Bishop emeritus of La Rochelle
*François Jacolin, M.D.P., Bishop of Mende
*Gérard Coliche, Titular Bishop of Alet and Auxiliary of Lille
*Claude-Joseph Azéma, Titular Bishop of Murcona and Auxiliary of Montpellier
*Jacques David, Bishop emeritus of Evreux
*Jean-Charles Thomas, Bishop emeritus of Versailles
*François-Mathurin Gourvès, Bishop emeritus of Vannes
*Edmond Abelé, Bishop emeritus of Digne
*Yves Bescond, Titular Bishop of Aquae Thibilitane and former Auxiliary of Meaux
*Alphonse Georger, Bishop emeritus of Oran