Bishop Linus Okok Okwach †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Homa Bay, Kenya

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Oct 1952		Born
10 Dec 1980	28.1	Ordained Priest	Priest
18 Oct 1993	40.9	Appointed	Bishop of Homa Bay, Kenya
31 Dec 1993	41.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Homa Bay, Kenya
20 Feb 2002	49.3	Resigned	Bishop of Homa Bay, Kenya
12 Sep 2020	67.8	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Homa Bay, Kenya

MicroData Summary
Linus Okok Okwach
Bishop Linus Okok Okwach
(born 20 Oct 1952, died 12 Sep 2020)
Bishop Emeritus of Homa Bay

Event Place
Birth Place Kisumu, Archdiocese of Kisumu
Ordained Bishop Stadium, Homa Bay, Diocese of Homa Bay
Death Place St. Monica's, Hospital, Kisumu, Archdiocese of Kisumu

a priest for 39.7 years
a bishop for 26.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
Jozef Cardinal Tomko †
Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Clemente Faccani †
Titular Archbishop of Serra
Archbishop Zacchaeus Okoth
Archbishop of Kisumu

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Jozef Cardinal Tomko † (1979)
Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1827079

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 138, Number 12,296
d: CB, 13 Sep 2020
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 246, Necrology (back)

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