Archbishop Edward Tamba Charles

Archbishop of Freetown, Sierra Leone

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Apr 1956		Born
4 Apr 1986	29.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kenema, Sierra Leone
15 Mar 2008	51.9	Appointed	Archbishop of Freetown and Bo, Sierra Leone
14 May 2008	52.0	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Freetown and Bo, Sierra Leone
15 Jan 2011	54.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Freetown, Sierra Leone

MicroData Summary for Edward Tamba Charles
(VIAF: 281296029; WikiData: Q1293824)
Archbishop Edward Tamba Charles (born 18 Apr 1956) Archbishop of Freetown

Ad Limina - April 2010: Bishop
Ad Limina - June 2018: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Kainkordu

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Freetown.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop George Antonysamy
Titular Archbishop of Sulci
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Patrick Daniel Koroma †
Bishop of Kenema
Bishop George (Giorgio) Biguzzi, S.X.
Bishop of Makeni

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop George Antonysamy (2005)
Titular Archbishop of Sulci
Ivan Cornelius Cardinal Dias † (1982)
Archbishop of Bombay
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
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 Gabriel Mendy, C.S.Sp. (2018)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Charles Allieu Matthew Campbell (2011)
Bishop Bob John Hassan Koroma (2023)

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 15 Mar 2008
ob/c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 194, Number 15,743

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