Bishop Abraham Desta

Vicar Apostolic of Meki

Titular Bishop of Horrea Aninici

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Mar 1951		Born	Medea-Sebea
20 Apr 1980	29.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Adigrat (Ethiopian), Ethiopia
29 Jan 2003	51.9	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Meki, Ethiopia
29 Jan 2003	51.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Horrea Aninici
10 May 2003	52.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Horrea Aninici

Please contact the Bishop through the Vicariate Apostolic of Meki.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M.
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Kidane-Mariam Teklehaimanot †
Bishop Woldetensaé Ghebreghiorghis, O.F.M. Cap.

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Abraham Desta (2003)
Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M. (1998)
Paulos Cardinal Tzadua † (1973)
Archbishop Asrate Mariam Yemmeru † (1958)
Bishop Hailé Mariam Cahsai † (1951)
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 Theodorus van Ruijven (van Ruyven), C.M.

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Number 14,398

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