Raphael Cheenath

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Raphael Cheenath (29 December 1934 – 14 August 2016) was the archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, India. He was ordained as a priest of the Society of the Divine Word on 21 September 1963 and appointed bishop of Sambalpur, India on 28 February 1974. He was appointed as archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar on 1 July 1985 and retired on 11 February 2011.{{cite web | url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcheenath.html | title=Archbishop Emeritus of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar | accessdate=8 December 2012}} Cheenath died on 14 August 2016 at Holy Spirit Hospital in Mumbai.{{cite news | url=http://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/arch-bishop-raphael-cheenath-passes-away-english-news-1.1283093 | title=Arch Bishop Raphael Cheenath passes away | newspaper=Mathrubhumi | date=15 August 2016 | accessdate=15 August 2016 }}