Pope Meets another group of India’s Catholic Bishops on their Ad Limina Visit

(June 16, 2011) Pope Benedict XVI met a group of Catholic Bishops from Tamil Nadu South India on their Ad Limina visit on Thursday. The visit ad limina means the obligation of the heads of the Dioceses of visiting Rome every five years the relics of Sts. Peter and Paul, and of presenting themselves before the pope to give an account of the state of their dioceses. Pope Benedict XVI met Bishop Arokiasamy Jude Gerald Paulraj of Palayamkottai, Bishop Jebamalai Susaimanickam of Sivagangai, Bishop Antony Devotta, of Tiruchirappalli, Bishop Yvon Ambroise of Tuticorin, Bishop Joseph Anthony Irudayaraj of Dharmapuri, Bishop Antonisamy Francis of Kumbakonam and Bishop Singaroyan Sebastianappan of Salem. This year the Indian Bishops are making their ad limina visits to Rome which began in March with the Syro-Malakara rite Bishops. These visits will end in September.