# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saminini-arulappa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:03:42.905Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saminini-arulappa"
name: "Saminini Arulappa"
slug: "saminini-arulappa"
description: "Archbishop Samineni Arulappa, also known as S. Arulappa, was an Indian Catholic clergyman who served as the Archbishop of Hyderabad from December 1971 through January 2000. The youngest priest to be consecrated to such a high office, he was also the longest-serving Catholic archbishop in India. He was also the first archbishop who had the honour of being consecrated by Pope Paul VI in Rome."
tagline: "Catholic archbishop (1924–2005)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1924-08-28"
deathDate: "2005-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.935529333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saminini_Arulappa"
    title: "Saminini Arulappa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samineni_Arulappa"
    title: "Samineni Arulappa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saminini_Arulappa"
    title: "Saminini Arulappa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saminini_Arulappa"
    title: "Saminini Arulappa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Арулаппа, Саминини"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samineni_Arulappa"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1720543"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump