Bishop Edmund Joseph Fitzgibbon, S.P.S.

Bishop Emeritus of Warri

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Mar 1925		Born	Ballylegan, Ireland
9 Apr 1950	25.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of St. Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions
25 Nov 1964	39.7	Appointed	Prefect of Minna, Nigeria
17 Sep 1973	48.5	Resigned	Prefect of Minna, Nigeria
20 Nov 1975	50.7	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
20 Nov 1975	50.7	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Warri, Nigeria
20 Nov 1975	50.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Forum Traiani
6 Jan 1976	50.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Forum Traiani
31 Aug 1991	66.5	Appointed	Bishop of Warri, Nigeria
3 Mar 1997	72.0	Resigned	Bishop of Warri, Nigeria

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Warri.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Agnelo Cardinal Rossi †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bernardin Cardinal Gantin
Bishop James Moynagh, S.P.S. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Edmund Joseph Fitzgibbon, S.P.S. (1976)
Agnelo Cardinal Rossi † (1956)
Archbishop Paulo de Tarso Campos † (1935)
Archbishop Leopoldo Duarte e Silva, Paulista † (1904)
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard † (1872)
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galeffi † (1819)
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
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 Camillus Archibong Etokudoh

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