Bishop Patrick Francis Sheehan, O.S.A.

Bishop Emeritus of Kano

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 May 1932		Born	Boyle, Ireland
25 Feb 1956	23.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of St. Augustine
21 Sep 1970	38.3	Appointed	Bishop of Yola, Nigeria
6 Jan 1971	38.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Yola, Nigeria
5 Jul 1996	64.1	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Kano, Nigeria
22 Jun 1999	67.1	Appointed	Bishop of Kano, Nigeria
20 Mar 2008	75.8	Retired	Bishop of Kano, Nigeria

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Kano.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Amelio Poggi †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop John Kwao Amuzu Aggey †
Bishop James Timothy Kieran Cotter, O.S.A. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Patrick Francis Sheehan, O.S.A. (1971)
Archbishop Amelio Poggi † (1967)
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
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 † (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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Senan Louis O'Donnell, O.S.A.
Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama
Archbishop Matthew Man-oso Ndagoso
Bishop John Namanzah Niyiring, O.S.A.

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