Bishop Joseph Alessandro, O.F.M. Cap.

Bishop Emeritus of Garissa, Kenya

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Nov 1944		Born
30 Sep 1962	17.8	Professed	Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
30 Sep 1966	21.8	Perpetual Vows	Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
20 Dec 1969	25.0	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
5 Apr 1970	25.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
29 Jun 2012	67.5	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Garissa, Kenya
29 Sep 2012	67.8	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Garissa, Kenya
8 Dec 2015	71.0	Succeeded	Bishop of Garissa, Kenya
17 Feb 2022	77.2	Retired	Bishop of Garissa, Kenya

MicroData Summary
Joseph Alessandro
Bishop Joseph Alessandro O.F.M. Cap.
(born 30 Nov 1944)
Bishop Emeritus of Garissa

Ad Limina - April 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Paola, Archdiocese of Malta
Ordained Bishop Saint John, Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Archdiocese of Malta

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Garissa.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
John Cardinal Njue
Archbishop of Nairobi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Paul Cremona, O.P.
Archbishop of Malta
Bishop Paul Darmanin, O.F.M. Cap. †
Bishop of Garissa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

John Cardinal Njue (1986)
Archbishop of Nairobi
Jozef Cardinal Tomko † (1979)
Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 George Muthaka, O.F.M. Cap. (2022)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Paola, Archdiocese of Malta
Ordained Bishop	Saint John, Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Archdiocese of Malta

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1706428

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 29 Jun 2012
bd: CB, 5 Jul 2012
ob: CB, 31 Jul 2012
c2+: CB, 12 Aug 2012
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 211, Number 17,545
s: Bollettino, 8 Dec 2015
r: Bollettino, 17 Feb 2022
loc: CB, 18 Nov 2024

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