Bishop John Christopher Mahon, S.P.S. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Lodwar

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Dec 1922		Born	Killurine, Ireland
28 Mar 1948	25.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of St. Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions
16 Jan 1968	45.1	Appointed	Prefect of Lodwar, Kenya
30 Jan 1978	55.1	Appointed	Bishop of Lodwar, Kenya
25 Apr 1978	55.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Lodwar, Kenya
17 Feb 2000	77.1	Retired	Bishop of Lodwar, Kenya
10 Nov 2004	81.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Lodwar, Kenya

a priest for 56.6 years
a bishop for 26.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop John Njenga
Bishop William Dunne, S.P.S. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Christopher Mahon, S.P.S. † (1978)
Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga † (1957)
James Robert Cardinal Knox † (1953)
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
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 Patrick Joseph Harrington, S.M.A.

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