Bishop Rimantas Norvila

Bishop of Vilkaviškis, Lithuania

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Dec 1957		Born
24 Feb 1991	33.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kaunas, Lithuania
28 May 1997	39.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Kaunas, Lithuania
28 May 1997	39.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Castrum
29 Jun 1997	39.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Castrum
5 Jan 2002	44.0	Appointed	Bishop of Vilkaviškis, Lithuania

MicroData Summary
Rimantas Norvila
Bishop Rimantas Norvila
(born 2 Dec 1957)
Bishop of Vilkaviškis

Ad Limina - June 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - February 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Baptai
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Kaunas, Archdiocese of Kaunas

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Vilkaviškis.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Sigitas Tamkevičius, S.J.
Archbishop of Kaunas
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Audrys Juozas Bačkis
Archbishop of Vilnius
Bishop Vladas Michelevičius †
Titular Bishop of Thapsus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Sigitas Tamkevičius, S.J. (1991)
Archbishop of Kaunas
Vincentas Cardinal Sladkevičius, M.I.C. † (1957)
Archbishop of Kaunas
Bishop Bl. Teofilius Matulionis † (1929)
Bishop of Kaišiadorys
Bishop Anton Malecki † (1926)
Titular Bishop of Dionysiana
Bishop Michel-Joseph Bourguignon d’Herbigny, S.J. † (1926)
Titular Bishop of Ilium
Archbishop Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Titular Archbishop of Sardes
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Jonas Ivanauskas (2003)
Bishop Arūnas Poniškaitis (2010)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 8876154260408724480001
WikiData: Q734199

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 149, Number 13,028

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