Bishop Patrick Francis Sheehan, O.S.A. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Kano, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 May 1932		Born
25 Feb 1956	23.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of St. Augustine
21 Sep 1970	38.3	Appointed	Bishop of Yola, Nigeria
6 Jan 1971	38.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Yola, Nigeria
5 Jul 1996	64.1	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Kano, Nigeria
22 Jun 1999	67.0	Appointed	Bishop of Kano, Nigeria
20 Mar 2008	75.8	Retired	Bishop of Kano, Nigeria
8 Nov 2012	80.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Kano, Nigeria

MicroData Summary
Patrick Francis Sheehan
Bishop Patrick Francis Sheehan O.S.A.
(born 28 May 1932, died 8 Nov 2012)
Bishop Emeritus of Kano

Event Place
Birth Place Boyle, Ireland

a priest for 56.7 years
a bishop for 41.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Amelio Poggi †
Titular Archbishop of Cercina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop John Kwao Amuzu Aggey †
Archbishop of Lagos
Bishop James Timothy Kieran Cotter, O.S.A. †
Bishop of Maiduguri

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Amelio Poggi † (1967)
Titular Archbishop of Cercina
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Senan Louis O’Donnell, O.S.A. † (1993)
Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama (1995)
Archbishop Matthew Man-oso Ndagoso (2003)
Bishop John Namaza Niyiring, O.S.A. (2008)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q43615

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 20 Mar 2008
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 212, Necrology (back)
Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 15, Number 767

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