Bishop Tsegaye Keneni Derara

Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Soddo, Ethiopia

Titular Bishop of Maximiana in Byzacena

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Nov 1943		Born
13 Jul 1976	32.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Addis Abeba (Ethiopian), Ethiopia
11 Oct 2013	69.8	Appointed	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Soddo, Ethiopia
11 Oct 2013	69.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Maximiana in Byzacena
24 Nov 2013	70.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Maximiana in Byzacena
12 Jan 2014	70.1	Succeeded	Vicar Apostolic of Soddo, Ethiopia
23 Nov 2023	80.0	Retired	Vicar Apostolic of Soddo, Ethiopia

MicroData Summary
Tsegaye Keneni Derara
Bishop Tsegaye Keneni Derara
(born 23 Nov 1943)
Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Soddo

Ad Limina - May 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Metcha Borodo
Ordained Bishop Holy Trinity, Cathedral, Soddo, Vicariate Apostolic of Soddo

Please contact the Bishop through the Vicariate Apostolic of Soddo.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M.
Archbishop of Addis Abeba (Ethiopian)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Rodrigo Mejía Saldarriaga, S.J.
Titular Bishop of Vulturia
Bishop Tesfasellassie Medhin
Bishop of Adigrat (Ethiopian)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M. (1998)
Archbishop of Addis Abeba (Ethiopian)
Paulos Cardinal Tzadua † (1973)
Archbishop of Addis Abeba (Ethiopian)
Archbishop Asrate Mariam Yemmeru † (1958)
Archbishop of Addis Abeba (Ethiopian)
Bishop Hailé Mariam Cahsai † (1951)
Titular Bishop of Sozusa in Libya
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q15851652

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 11 Oct 2013
ob/c2+: CB, 20 Oct 2013
b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 2,013, Number 150
s: CB, 12 Jan 2014
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 216, Number 17,984
r: Bollettino, 23 Nov 2023

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