Bishop Augustine Ndubueze Echema

Bishop of Aba, Nigeria

Motto: Non Nobis Domine

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Dec 1958		Born
16 Aug 1986	27.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Owerri, Nigeria
28 Dec 2019	61.0	Appointed	Bishop of Aba, Nigeria
13 Feb 2020	61.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Aba, Nigeria

MicroData Summary
Augustine Ndubueze Echema
Bishop Augustine Ndubueze Echema
(born 28 Dec 1958)
Bishop of Aba

Event Place
Birth Place Ohuhu Nsulu, Diocese of Umuahia
Ordained Bishop Christ the King, Cathedral, Aba, Diocese of Aba

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Aba.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Antonio Guido Filipazzi
Titular Archbishop of Sutrium
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Anthony John Valentine Obinna
Archbishop of Owerri
Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu
Titular Archbishop of Aquaviva

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Antonio Guido Filipazzi (2011)
Titular Archbishop of Sutrium
Pope Benedict XVI (1977)
(Joseph Ratzinger †)
Bishop Josef Stangl † (1957)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Josef Schneider † (1955)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Joseph Cardinal Wendel † (1941)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Bishop Ludwig Sebastian † (1917)
Bishop of Speyer
Archbishop Johann Jakob von Hauck † (1912)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Ferdinand von Schlör † (1898)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Joseph von Schork † (1891)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Franz Joseph von Stein † (1879)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Friedrich Josef von Schreiber † (1875)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Gregor (Leonhard Andreas) von Scherr, O.S.B. † (1856)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Archbishop Antonio Saverio De Luca † (1845)
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 Thomas Ifeanyichukwu Obiatuegwu (2024)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 27789419
WikiData: Q80099520

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 28 Dec 2019
ob: CB, 6 Jan 2020
ob/c2+: CB, 8 Feb 2020
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 243, Number 20,351

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