Bishop Christopher Shaman Abba †

Deceased

Bishop of Yola

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Dec 1935		Born	Mabushi
16 Dec 1966	31.0	Ordained Priest	Priest
17 Sep 1973	37.7	Appointed	Bishop of Minna, Nigeria
30 Dec 1973	38.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Minna, Nigeria
5 Jul 1996	60.5	Appointed	Bishop of Yola, Nigeria
10 Jan 2010	74.1	Died	Bishop of Yola, Nigeria

Ad Limina - February 2009: Bishop

a priest for 43.1 years
a bishop for 36.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Yariyok Jatau
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Alexius Obabu Makozi
Archbishop Felix Alaba Adeosin Job

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Christopher Shaman Abba † (1973)
Archbishop Peter Yariyok Jatau (1972)
Archbishop Amelio Poggi † (1967)
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop James Naanman Daman, O.S.A.
Archbishop Matthew Man-oso Ndagoso

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Necrology (back)

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