Archbishop Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton

Archbishop Emeritus of Cotonou

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Jan 1941		Born	Avrankou
6 Jan 1966	25.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Porto Novo, Benin
19 Dec 1994	53.9	Appointed	Bishop of Kandi, Benin
25 Mar 1995	54.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kandi, Benin
29 Jan 2000	59.0	Appointed	Bishop of Porto Novo, Benin
18 Jun 2000	59.4	Installed	Bishop of Porto Novo, Benin
5 Mar 2005	64.1	Appointed	Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin
2 Apr 2005	64.2	Installed	Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin
21 Aug 2010	69.6	Resigned	Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Cotonou.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Noël Laurent Boucheix, S.M.A. †
Principal Consecrator:
Bernardin Cardinal Gantin †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Nestor Assogba
Bishop Vincent Mensah †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton (1995)
Bernardin Cardinal Gantin † (1957)
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 Eugène Cyrille Houndékon

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 21 Aug 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 142, Number 12,537
i: Website of the Diocese, 18 Nov 2011

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