Archbishop Richard Anthony Burke, S.P.S.

Archbishop Emeritus of Benin City, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Feb 1949		Born
1 Oct 1971	22.6	Professed	Member of St. Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions
7 Jun 1973	24.3	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of St. Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions
18 May 1975	26.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of St. Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions
6 Dec 1995	46.7	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Warri, Nigeria
6 Jan 1996	46.8	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Warri, Nigeria
3 Mar 1997	48.0	Succeeded	Bishop of Warri, Nigeria
24 Dec 2007	58.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Benin City, Nigeria
24 Dec 2007	58.8	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Warri, Nigeria
7 Mar 2008	59.0	Installed	Archbishop of Benin City, Nigeria
29 Mar 2010	61.1	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Warri, Nigeria
31 May 2010	61.2	Resigned	Archbishop of Benin City, Nigeria

MicroData Summary for Richard Anthony Burke
(WikiData: Q2148989)
Archbishop Richard Anthony Burke S.P.S. (born 19 Feb 1949) Archbishop Emeritus of Benin City

Ad Limina - February 2009: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Clonmel, Ireland

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Benin City.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Deacon by:
Bishop James Kavanagh †
Titular Bishop of Zerta
Ordained Priest by:
Bishop James Moynagh, S.P.S. †
Bishop Emeritus of Calabar
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Jorge María Mejía †
Titular Archbishop of Apollonia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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 Hyacinth Oroko Egbebo, M.S.P.N. (2008)
Bishop Derek John Christopher Byrne, S.P.S. (2009)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Clonmel, Ireland

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 24 Dec 2007
r: Bollettino, 31 May 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143, Number 12,648

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