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Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy

1924 - 2014

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Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy (5 February 1924 – 2 June 2014) was an Indian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was the Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches in the Roman Curia and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1985. His episcopical motto was Aedificare domum Dei which means "To build the house of God". He was the fourth cardinal from India and the first curial cardinal of Asia outside of the Middle East. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy is the 2,102nd most popular religious figure (up from 2,566th in 2019), the 408th most popular biography from India (up from 587th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy ranks 2,102 out of 3,187. Before him are Shelah, Maria Restituta Kafka, Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro, Alypius the Stylite, Anastasia, and Edward Clancy. After him are Giacomo Biffi, John of Biclaro, Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, Arsenios Autoreianos, Bernard Agré, and Ursus of Solothurn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy ranks 208. Before him are Eduardo Fajardo, Wiel Coerver, Anne Vernon, Adelaida Avagyan, M. Karunanidhi, and Deke Slayton. After him are Claribel Alegría, Robert Webber, Marcel Broodthaers, Nina Bocharova, Leon Uris, and Gohar Gasparyan. Among people deceased in 2014, Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy ranks 183. Before him are Stefanie Zweig, Horace Silver, Michael Sata, Rudolph Rummel, Viscera, and Edward Clancy. After him are Bernard Agré, Rafael Addiego Bruno, Wubbo Ockels, Sulejman Tihić, Henning Carlsen, and Jean-Jacques Marcel.

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In India

Among people born in India, Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy ranks 408 out of 1,861. Before him are Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), P. Chidambaram (1945), Suriya (1975), Asaf-ud-Daula (1748), M. Karunanidhi (1924), and Tarun Gogoi (1936). After him are Sucheta Kriplani (1908), Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal (1838), Rana Sanga (1482), Navneet Aditya Waiba (null), Motilal Nehru (1861), and Nirmala Srivastava (1923).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy ranks 45. Before him are Ivan Dias (1936), Varkey Vithayathil (1927), Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), Joseph Vaz (1651), Swaminarayan (1781), and Filipe Neri Ferrão (1953). After him are Nirmala Srivastava (1923), Rukhmabai (1864), Oswald Gracias (1944), Telesphore Toppo (1939), Guru Har Krishan (1656), and Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863).

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