Bishop Severinah Abdon Potani, O.F.M. Conv. †

Deceased

Bishop of Solwezi, Zambia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Jun 1919		Born
17 Aug 1949	30.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Conventual
9 Jun 1970	50.9	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Solwezi, Zambia
9 Dec 1976	57.4	Appointed	Bishop of Solwezi, Zambia
20 Feb 1977	57.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Solwezi, Zambia
26 Dec 1993	74.4	Died	Bishop of Solwezi, Zambia

MicroData Summary
Severinah Abdon Potani
Bishop Severinah Abdon Potani O.F.M. Conv.
(born 30 Jun 1919, died 26 Dec 1993)
Bishop of Solwezi

Event Place
Birth Place Petauke
Ordained Bishop Solwezi, Diocese of Solwezi

a priest for 44.3 years
a bishop for 16.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Luciano Angeloni †
Titular Archbishop of Vibo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Francesco Costantino Mazzieri, O.F.M. Conv. †
Bishop Emeritus of Ndola
Bishop Medardo Joseph Mazombwe †
Bishop of Chipata

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Luciano Angeloni † (1971)
Titular Archbishop of Vibo
Paolo Cardinal Bertoli † (1952)
Cardinal-Deacon of San Girolamo della Carità a Via Giulia
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q64776968

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 137
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 60, Number 4,551

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