Bishop Alphonse Bilung, S.V.D.

Bishop Emeritus of Rourkela

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Jun 1933		Born	Kusumdegi
3 Oct 1961	28.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of the Divine Word
4 Jul 1979	46.1	Appointed	Bishop of Rourkela, India
3 Nov 1979	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Rourkela, India
2 Apr 2009	75.8	Retired	Bishop of Rourkela, India

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Rourkela.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Henry Sebastian D’Souza
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Raphael Cheenath, S.V.D.
Bishop Hermann Westermann, S.V.D. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Alphonse Bilung, S.V.D. (1979)
Archbishop Henry Sebastian D’Souza (1974)
Archbishop John Gordon † (1962)
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Lucas Kerketta, S.V.D.
Bishop Joseph Das †
Archbishop John Barwa, S.V.D.

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 2 Apr 2009

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