Bishop Christopher Shaman Abba †

Deceased

Bishop of Yola, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Dec 1935		Born
16 Dec 1966	30.9	Ordained Priest	Priest
17 Sep 1973	37.7	Appointed	Bishop of Minna, Nigeria
30 Dec 1973	38.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Minna, Nigeria
5 Jul 1996	60.5	Appointed	Bishop of Yola, Nigeria
10 Jan 2010	74.0	Died	Bishop of Yola, Nigeria

MicroData Summary for Christopher Shaman Abba
(WikiData: Q1086960)
Bishop Christopher Shaman Abba (born 20 Dec 1935, died 10 Jan 2010) Bishop of Yola

Ad Limina - February 2009: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Mabushi
Ordained Bishop St. Michael, Church, Minna, Diocese of Minna

a priest for 43.0 years
a bishop for 36.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Yariyok Jatau †
Titular Archbishop of Velebusdus
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Alexius Obabu Makozi †
Bishop of Lokoja
Bishop Felix Alaba Adeosin Job
Titular Bishop of Abthugni

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Peter Yariyok Jatau † (1972)
Titular Archbishop of Velebusdus
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop James Naanman Daman, O.S.A. † (2001)
Archbishop Matthew Man-oso Ndagoso (2003)

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 22, Number 1,240

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