Bishop Castor Sekwa †

Deceased

Bishop of Shinyanga, Tanzania

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Mar 1927		Born
15 Aug 1959	32.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Shinyanga, Tanzania
30 Jan 1975	47.8	Appointed	Bishop of Shinyanga, Tanzania
18 May 1975	48.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Shinyanga, Tanzania
4 Jun 1996	69.1	Died	Bishop of Shinyanga, Tanzania

MicroData Summary
Castor Sekwa
Bishop Castor Sekwa
(born 28 Mar 1927, died 4 Jun 1996)
Bishop of Shinyanga

Event Place
Birth Place Sayusayu
Ordained Bishop Shinyanga, Diocese of Shinyanga

a priest for 36.8 years
a bishop for 21.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa †
Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Marko Mihayo †
Archbishop of Tabora
Bishop Placidus Gervasius Nkalanga, O.S.B. †
Bishop Emeritus of Bukoba

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa † (1952)
Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam
Archbishop David James Mathew † (1938)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Bithynia
Arthur Cardinal Hinsley † (1926)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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:
Bishop Matthew Shija † (1984)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q11855092

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 148, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 150, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 35, Number 2,120

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