Bishop Athanase Bala, C.S.Sp. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Bafia, Cameroon

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Mar 1927		Born
8 Sep 1954	27.5	Professed	Member of Congregation of the Holy Spirit
4 Jun 1955	28.2	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Congregation of the Holy Spirit
3 Jul 1955	28.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Holy Spirit
31 May 1976	49.2	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Bafia, Cameroon
31 May 1976	49.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Gegi
26 Sep 1976	49.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Gegi
21 Dec 1977	50.8	Succeeded	Bishop of Bafia, Cameroon
3 May 2003	76.1	Retired	Bishop of Bafia, Cameroon
3 Sep 2019	92.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Bafia, Cameroon

MicroData Summary for Athanase Bala
(WikiData: Q754746)
Bishop Athanase Bala C.S.Sp. (born 2 Mar 1927, died 3 Sep 2019) Bishop Emeritus of Bafia

Ad Limina - March 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Nlong
Ordained Deacon Holy Spirit Scholasticate, Chapel, Chevilly-Larue, Archdiocese of Paris, France
Ordained Priest Holy Spirit Scholasticate, Chapel, Chevilly-Larue, Archdiocese of Paris, France
Ordained Bishop Bafia, Diocese of Bafia
Death Place Yaoundé, Archdiocese of Yaoundé

a priest for 64.1 years
a bishop for 42.9 years

Ordained Deacon by:
Bishop Émile Élie Verhille, C.S.Sp. †
Titular Bishop of Cernitza
Ordained Priest by:
Bishop René Marie Graffin, C.S.Sp. †
Titular Bishop of Mosynopolis
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Jean Zoa †
Archbishop of Yaoundé
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Paul Etoga †
Bishop of Mbalmayo
Bishop Gilles-Henri-Alexis Barthe †
Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Jean Zoa † (1961)
Archbishop of Yaoundé
Grégoire-Pierre XV (François) Cardinal Agagianian † (1935)
Patriarch of Cilicia (Armenian)
Bishop Serge Der Abrahamian † (1933)
Titular Bishop of Cucusus
Patriarch Avedis Bédros XIV Arpiarian † (1890)
Patriarch of Cilicia (Armenian)
Patriarch Stephan Bedros X Azarian † (1877)
Patriarch of Cilicia (Armenian)
Patriarch Andon Bedros Hassoun † (1842)
Patriarch of Cilicia (Armenian)
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:
Archbishop Joseph Atanga, S.J. (1999)
Bishop Jean-Marie Benoît Balla † (2003)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Nlong
Ordained Deacon	Holy Spirit Scholasticate, Chapel, Chevilly-Larue, Archdiocese of Paris, France
Ordained Priest	Holy Spirit Scholasticate, Chapel, Chevilly-Larue, Archdiocese of Paris, France
Ordained Bishop	Bafia, Diocese of Bafia
Death Place	Yaoundé, Archdiocese of Yaoundé

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 242, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 37, Number 2,260
od/c01/prof/loc: AJ, 5 Oct 2022

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