Bishop Vincent Billington, M.H.M. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Kampala

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 May 1904		Born	Blackburn, Great Britain
20 Jul 1930	26.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of St. Joseph’s Missionary Society of Mill Hill
13 May 1948	44.0	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Kampala, Uganda
13 May 1948	44.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Avissa
26 Jul 1948	44.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Avissa
25 Mar 1953	48.9	Appointed	Bishop of Kampala, Uganda
3 May 1965	61.0	Resigned	Bishop of Kampala, Uganda
3 May 1965	61.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Fallaba
7 Dec 1970	66.6	Resigned	Titular Bishop of Fallaba
6 Oct 1976	72.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Kampala, Uganda

a priest for 46.2 years
a bishop for 28.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
William Cardinal Godfrey †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Thomas Edward Flynn †
Bishop Frederick Hall, M.H.M. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Vincent Billington, M.H.M. † (1948)
William Cardinal Godfrey † (1938)
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (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 John Francis Greif, M.H.M. †
Bishop Adrian Kivumbi Ddungu

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