Bishop Soane Patita Paini Mafi

Bishop of Tonga

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Dec 1961		Born	Nuku'alofa
29 Jun 1991	29.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tonga, Pacific (Oceania)
28 Jun 2007	45.5	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Tonga, Pacific (Oceania)
4 Oct 2007	45.8	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Tonga, Pacific (Oceania)
18 Apr 2008	46.3	Succeeded	Bishop of Tonga, Pacific (Oceania)

Ad Limina - December 2011: Bishop

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Tonga.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Patelisio Punou-Ki-Hihifo Finau, S.M. †
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Soane Lilo Foliaki, S.M.
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Alapati Lui Mataeliga
Archbishop Petero Mataca

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Soane Patita Paini Mafi (2007)
Bishop Soane Lilo Foliaki, S.M. (1994)
Archbishop Thomas A. White (1978)
Agnelo Cardinal Rossi † (1956)
Archbishop Paulo de Tarso Campos † (1935)
Archbishop Leopoldo Duarte e Silva † (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 Galleffi † (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 Jean (John) Bosco Baremes, S.M.

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 28 Jun 2007
ob/c2+: CB
b: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 191, Number 15,546

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