Bishop Joseph Befe Ateba †

Deceased

Bishop of Kribi, Cameroon

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Apr 1962		Born
20 Jun 1987	25.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Yaoundé, Cameroon
19 Jun 2008	46.1	Appointed	Bishop of Kribi, Cameroon
4 Oct 2008	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kribi, Cameroon
4 Jun 2014	52.1	Died	Bishop of Kribi, Cameroon

MicroData Summary
Joseph Befe Ateba
Bishop Joseph Befe Ateba
(born 25 Apr 1962, died 4 Jun 2014)
Bishop of Kribi

Event Place
Birth Place Nkoabe

a priest for 26.9 years
a bishop for 5.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Jean Zoa †
Archbishop of Yaoundé
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Robert Sarah
Archbishop Emeritus of Conakry {Konakry}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Simon-Victor Tonyé Bakot
Archbishop of Yaoundé
Bishop Jean Mbarga
Bishop of Ebolowa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Robert Sarah (1979)
Archbishop Emeritus of Conakry {Konakry}
Giovanni Cardinal Benelli † (1966)
Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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

External Link(s):

VIAF: 26381235
WikiData: Q1706598

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 19 Jun 2008
ob/c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 196, Number 15,976
d: CB, 4 Jun 2014
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 221, Necrology (back)

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