Bishop Louis Vangeke, M.S.C. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Bereina, Papua New Guinea

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Jun 1904		Born
14 Jun 1937	32.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
21 Sep 1970	66.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
21 Sep 1970	66.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Culusi
3 Dec 1970	66.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Culusi
1 Mar 1976	71.6	Appointed	Bishop of Bereina, Papua New Guinea
30 Oct 1979	75.3	Retired	Bishop of Bereina, Papua New Guinea
15 Dec 1982	78.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Bereina, Papua New Guinea

MicroData Summary
Louis Vangeke
Bishop Louis Vangeke M.S.C.
(born 25 Jun 1904, died 15 Dec 1982)
Bishop Emeritus of Bereina

Event Place
Birth Place Ogofoina
Ordained Bishop Sainte Marie, Cathedral, Sydney, Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia

a priest for 45.5 years
a bishop for 12.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Virgil Patrick Copas, M.S.C. †
Archbishop of Port Moresby
Bishop Eugène Klein, M.S.C. †
Bishop of Bereina

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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:
Archbishop Benedict To Varpin † (1980)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Herman To Paivu † (1974)
Bishop Gregory Singkai † (1974)
Bishop John Etheridge, C.P. † (1980)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q21538152

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 12, Number 614

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