Peter Fernando

Peter Fernando was a Roman Catholic prelate from India.

Early life

Bishop Peter Fernando 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 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]