Bishop Francis Emmanuel Ogbonna Okobo

Bishop Emeritus of Nsukka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Nov 1936		Born	Lejja
4 Jun 1966	29.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Enugu, Nigeria
19 Nov 1990	54.0	Appointed	Bishop of Nsukka, Nigeria
6 Jan 1991	54.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Nsukka, Nigeria
13 Apr 2013	76.4	Retired	Bishop of Nsukka, Nigeria

Ad Limina - February 2009: Bishop

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Nsukka.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(Bl. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Justin Francis Rigali
Titular Archbishop of Volsinium

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(Bl. 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 †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 125, Number 11,301
r: Bollettino, 13 Apr 2013

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