Bishop Solomon Amanchukwu Amatu

Bishop of Okigwe, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Dec 1950		Born
7 Oct 1978	27.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Awka, Nigeria
22 Dec 2000	50.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Awka, Nigeria
22 Dec 2000	50.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sabrata
28 Apr 2001	50.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sabrata
28 May 2005	54.4	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Okigwe, Nigeria
22 Apr 2006	55.3	Succeeded	Bishop of Okigwe, Nigeria

MicroData Summary
Solomon Amanchukwu Amatu
Bishop Solomon Amanchukwu Amatu
(born 17 Dec 1950)
Bishop of Okigwe

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

Event Place
Birth Place Ukpo, Archdiocese of Onitsha
Ordained Bishop Saint Patrick, Cathedral, Awka, Diocese of Awka

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Okigwe.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Osvaldo Montecillo Padilla
Titular Archbishop of Pia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Albert Kanene Obiefuna †
Archbishop of Onitsha
Bishop Simon Akwali Okafor †
Bishop of Awka

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Osvaldo Montecillo Padilla (1991)
Titular Archbishop of Pia
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Paulinus Chukwuemeka Ezeokafor (2007)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/281005
VIAF: 89593727
WikiData: Q2299174

Source(s):

s: Bollettino, 22 Apr 2006
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 163, Number 13,966

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