Bishop Virgilio Pante, I.M.C.

Bishop Emeritus of Maralal, Kenya

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Mar 1946		Born
1965²	18.7	Entered	Member of Consolata Missionaries
1969²	22.7	Solemn Vows	Member of Consolata Missionaries
26 Dec 1970	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Consolata Missionaries
15 Jun 2001	55.2	Appointed	Bishop of Maralal, Kenya
6 Oct 2001	55.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Maralal, Kenya
20 Jul 2022	76.3	Retired	Bishop of Maralal, Kenya

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Virgilio Pante
Bishop Virgilio Pante I.M.C.
(born 16 Mar 1946)
Bishop Emeritus of Maralal

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

Event Place
Birth Place Lamon
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Near, Cathedral, Maralal, Diocese of Maralal

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Maralal.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Gioacchino Muccin †
Bishop of Belluno e Feltre
Principal Consecrator:
Jozef Cardinal Tomko †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Sabina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop John Joseph Njenga †
Archbishop of Mombasa
Bishop Ambrogio Ravasi, I.M.C. †
Bishop of Marsabit

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Jozef Cardinal Tomko † (1979)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Sabina
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 Marco Prastaro (2018)
Bishop Hieronymus Emusugut Joya, I.M.C. (2022)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 9541875
WikiData: Q1238327

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 165, Number 14,066
r: Bollettino, 20 Jul 2022
ente/c1: CB, 25 Jul 2022

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