Bishop Victor Adibe Chikwe †

Deceased

Bishop of Ahiara, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Jun 1938		Born
17 Apr 1966	27.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Owerri, Nigeria
18 Nov 1987	49.4	Appointed	Bishop of Ahiara, Nigeria
6 Jan 1988	49.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ahiara, Nigeria
16 Sep 2010	72.2	Died	Bishop of Ahiara, Nigeria

MicroData Summary
Victor Adibe Chikwe
Bishop Victor Adibe Chikwe
(born 24 Jun 1938, died 16 Sep 2010)
Bishop of Ahiara

Event Place
Birth Place Ihitte Ezinihitte

a priest for 44.4 years
a bishop for 22.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q579580

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 107, Number 9,425
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Necrology (back)

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