Archbishop Anthony John Valentine Obinna

Archbishop Emeritus of Owerri, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Jun 1946		Born
9 Apr 1972	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Owerri, Nigeria
1 Jul 1993	47.0	Appointed	Bishop of Owerri, Nigeria
4 Sep 1993	47.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Owerri, Nigeria
26 Mar 1994	47.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Owerri, Nigeria
6 Mar 2022	75.6	Retired	Archbishop of Owerri, Nigeria

MicroData Summary
Anthony John Valentine Obinna
Archbishop Anthony John Valentine Obinna
(born 26 Jun 1946)
Archbishop Emeritus of Owerri

Ad Limina - February 2009: Bishop
Ad Limina - April 2018: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Emekuku
Ordained Bishop Maria Assumpta, Cathedral, Owerri, Diocese of Owerri

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Owerri.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Titular Archbishop of Ulpiana
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Mark Onwuha Unegbu †
Bishop Emeritus of Owerri
Bishop Gregory Obinna Ochiagha †
Bishop of Orlu

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò (1992)
Titular Archbishop of Ulpiana
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 Consecrator of:
Peter Ebere Cardinal Okpaleke (2013)
Bishop Moses Chikwe (2019)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Augustine Tochukwu Ukwuoma (2008)
Bishop Euzébius Chinekezy Ogbonna Managwu (2016)
Bishop Hilary Nanman Dachelem, C.M.F. (2017)
Bishop Augustine Ndubueze Echema (2020)
Bishop Michael Kalu Ukpong (2020)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q573431

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 139, Number 12,334
r: Bollettino, 6 Mar 2022

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