Bishop Paul Choi Deok-ki

Bishop Emeritus of Suwon, Korea (South)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Jan 1948		Born
10 Oct 1975	27.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Suwon, Korea (South)
11 Jan 1996	47.9	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Suwon, Korea (South)
22 Feb 1996	48.1	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Suwon, Korea (South)
4 Jun 1997	49.3	Succeeded	Bishop of Suwon, Korea (South)
30 Mar 2009	61.2	Resigned	Bishop of Suwon, Korea (South)

MicroData Summary
Paul Choi Deok-ki
Bishop Paul Choi Deok-ki
(born 15 Jan 1948)
Bishop Emeritus of Suwon

Ad Limina - November 2007: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place P'yongt'aek

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Suwon.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Angelo Kim Nam-su †
Bishop of Suwon
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan †
Archbishop of Seoul
Archbishop Victorinus Youn Kong-hi
Archbishop of Gwangju

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Angelo Kim Nam-su † (1974)
Bishop of Suwon
Archbishop Victorinus Youn Kong-hi (1963)
Archbishop of Gwangju
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Mathias Ri Iong-hoon (Lee Yong-Hoon) (2003)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1287267

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 30 Mar 2009
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 146, Number 12,736

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