Archbishop Boniface Lele †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Mombasa, Kenya

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Apr 1947		Born
8 Dec 1974	27.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kitui, Kenya
2 Nov 1995	48.5	Appointed	Bishop of Kitui, Kenya
2 Feb 1996	48.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kitui, Kenya
1 Apr 2005	57.9	Appointed	Archbishop of Mombasa, Kenya
1 Nov 2013	66.5	Resigned	Archbishop of Mombasa, Kenya
9 Apr 2014	66.9	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Mombasa, Kenya

MicroData Summary for Boniface Lele
(VIAF: 271081515; WikiData: Q892482)
Archbishop Boniface Lele (born 14 Apr 1947, died 9 Apr 2014) Archbishop Emeritus of Mombasa

Ad Limina - November 2007: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Kyangwithya

a priest for 39.3 years
a bishop for 18.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Jozef Cardinal Tomko †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Sabina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop William Dunne, S.P.S. †
Prefect of Kitui
Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga †
Archbishop of Nairobi

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Jozef Cardinal Tomko † (1979)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Sabina
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 Emanuel Barbara, O.F.M. Cap. † (2011)
Bishop John Oballa Owaa (2012)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Kyangwithya

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 144, Number 12,678
r: Bollettino, 1 Nov 2013
d: CB, 9 Apr 2014
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 221, Necrology (back)

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