Bishop Jean-Marie Benoît Balla †

Deceased

Bishop of Bafia, Cameroon

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 May 1959		Born
20 Jun 1987	28.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Yaoundé, Cameroon
3 May 2003	43.9	Appointed	Bishop of Bafia, Cameroon
12 Jul 2003	44.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bafia, Cameroon
31 May 2017³	58.0	Died	Bishop of Bafia, Cameroon

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Jean-Marie Benoît Balla
(WikiData: Q1685033)
Bishop Jean-Marie Benoît Balla (born 10 May 1959, died 31 May 2017) Bishop of Bafia

Ad Limina - March 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Oweng
Ordained Bishop Bafia, Diocese of Bafia

a priest for 29.9 years
a bishop for 13.8 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Jean Zoa †
Archbishop of Yaoundé
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Félix del Blanco Prieto †
Titular Archbishop of Vannida
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Athanase Bala, C.S.Sp. †
Bishop Emeritus of Bafia
Bishop Cornelius Fontem Esua
Bishop of Kumbo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Félix del Blanco Prieto † (1991)
Titular Archbishop of Vannida
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
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

Event	Place
Birth Place	Oweng
Ordained Bishop	Bafia, Diocese of Bafia

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Number 14,422
d?: CB, 31 May 2017
d: CB, 2 Jun 2017
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 234, Necrology (back)

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