Bishop Salutaris Melchior Libena

Bishop of Ifakara, Tanzania

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Nov 1963		Born
29 Jun 1991	27.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mahenge, Tanzania
28 Jan 2010	46.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
28 Jan 2010	46.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sutunurca
19 Mar 2010	46.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sutunurca
14 Jan 2012	48.1	Appointed	Bishop of Ifakara, Tanzania

MicroData Summary
Salutaris Melchior Libena
Bishop Salutaris Melchior Libena
(born 23 Nov 1963)
Bishop of Ifakara

Ad Limina - April 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Itete

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Ifakara.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Patrick Iteka †
Bishop of Mahenge
Principal Consecrator:
Polycarp Cardinal Pengo
Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Jude Thaddaeus Ruwa’ichi, O.F.M. Cap.
Bishop of Dodoma
Bishop Almachius Vincent Rweyongeza
Bishop of Kayanga

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Polycarp Cardinal Pengo (1984)
Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam
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 Henry Mchamungu (2021)
Bishop Stephano Lameck Musomba, O.S.A. (2021)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2215514

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 28 Jan 2010
ob/c2+: CB
ab: Bollettino, 14 Jan 2012
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 201, Number 16,591

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