Bishop Joseph Mairura Okemwa

Bishop of Kisii, Kenya

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Jun 1954		Born
27 Oct 1987	33.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kisii, Kenya
19 Dec 1994	40.4	Appointed	Bishop of Kisii, Kenya
21 Jul 1995	41.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kisii, Kenya

MicroData Summary
Joseph Mairura Okemwa
Bishop Joseph Mairura Okemwa
(born 29 Jun 1954)
Bishop of Kisii

Ad Limina - November 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - April 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Nyabururu

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Kisii.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga †
Archbishop of Nairobi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Zacchaeus Okoth
Archbishop of Kisumu
Bishop John Njue
Bishop of Embu

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga † (1957)
Archbishop of Nairobi
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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 Joseph Obanyi Sagwe (2015)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 58418090
WikiData: Q1707556

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143, Number 12,599
obp: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 144
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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