Bishop Ayo-Maria Atoyebi, O.P. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Ilorin, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Dec 1944		Born
17 Dec 1978	34.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Preachers
6 Mar 1992	47.2	Appointed	Bishop of Ilorin, Nigeria
17 May 1992	47.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ilorin, Nigeria
11 Jun 2019	74.5	Resigned	Bishop of Ilorin, Nigeria
8 Mar 2025	80.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Ilorin, Nigeria

MicroData Summary
Ayo-Maria Atoyebi
Bishop Ayo-Maria Atoyebi O.P.
(born 3 Dec 1944, died 8 Mar 2025)
Bishop Emeritus of Ilorin

Ad Limina - February 2009: Bishop
Ad Limina - April 2018: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Okerimi-Oro
Ordained Bishop St. Joseph, Cathedral, Ilorin, Diocese of Ilorin
Death Place Ibadan, Archdiocese of Ibadan

a priest for 46.2 years
a bishop for 32.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Yariyok Jatau †
Archbishop of Kaduna
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan
Coadjutor Bishop of Abuja
Bishop Felix Alaba Adeosin Job
Bishop of Ibadan

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Peter Yariyok Jatau † (1972)
Archbishop of Kaduna
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 Paul Adegboyega Olawoore † (2018)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Senan Louis O’Donnell, O.S.A. † (1993)
Bishop Martin Igwemezie Uzoukwu (1996)
Bishop Bulus Dauwa Yohanna (2012)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 30161096751129102815
WikiData: Q793177

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 131, Number 11,774
r: Bollettino, 11 Jun 2019
d: CB, 8 Mar 2025

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