Bishop Lucien Monsi-Agboka †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Abomey, Benin

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Jun 1926		Born
21 Dec 1957	31.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cotonou, Benin
5 Apr 1963	36.8	Appointed	Bishop of Abomey, Benin
21 Jul 1963	37.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Abomey, Benin
25 Nov 2002	76.4	Retired	Bishop of Abomey, Benin
27 Apr 2008	81.8	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Abomey, Benin

MicroData Summary
Lucien Monsi-Agboka
Bishop Lucien Monsi-Agboka
(born 3 Jun 1926, died 27 Apr 2008)
Bishop Emeritus of Abomey

Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Cotonou, Vicariate Apostolic of Dahomey
Ordained Priest Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Abomey, Diocese of Abomey

a priest for 50.3 years
a bishop for 44.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Bernardin Gantin †
Archbishop of Cotonou
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Bernard Yago †
Archbishop of Abidjan
Archbishop Robert-Casimir Tonyui Messan Dosseh-Anyron †
Archbishop of Lomé

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Bernardin Gantin † (1957)
Archbishop of Cotonou
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Christophe Adimou † (1968)
Archbishop Nestor Assogba † (1976)
Bishop Bruno Kouamé † (1981)
Archbishop Antoine Ganyé (1995)
Bishop Eugène Cyrille Houndékon (2008)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 3528152381771701950000
WikiData: Q1873414

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1963, Number 70
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 194, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 196, Necrology (back)
bpd: CB, 29 Oct 2025

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