Bishop Neil Augustine Frank, O.M.I.

Bishop of Mariannhill, South Africa

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Aug 1966		Born
4 Jan 1998	31.3	Perpetual Vows	Member of Oblates of Mary Immaculate
21 Aug 1999	33.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate
17 Dec 2021	55.3	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Mariannhill, South Africa
26 Feb 2022	55.5	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Mariannhill, South Africa
13 Oct 2022	56.1	Succeeded	Bishop of Mariannhill, South Africa

MicroData Summary
Neil Augustine Frank
Bishop Neil Augustine Frank O.M.I.
(born 21 Aug 1966)
Bishop of Mariannhill

Event Place
Birth Place Pietermaritzburg, Archdiocese of Durban
Ordained Bishop Outdoors, Near, Cathedral, Mariannhill, Diocese of Mariannhill

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Mariannhill.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Siegfried Mandla Jwara, C.M.M.
Archbishop of Durban
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Pius Mlungisi Dlungwane
Bishop of Mariannhill
Bishop Sylvester Anthony John David, O.M.I.
Titular Bishop of Gunugus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Siegfried Mandla Jwara, C.M.M. (2016)
Archbishop of Durban
Bishop José Luís Gerardo Ponce de León, I.M.C. (2009)
Bishop of Manzini
Archbishop James Patrick Green (2006)
Titular Archbishop of Altinum
Angelo Cardinal Sodano † (1978)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Vusumuzi Francis Mazibuko, O.M.I. (2023)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q110162771

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 17 Dec 2021
ob/c2+: CB, 14 Jan 2022
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 251, Number 20,875
s: Bollettino, 13 Oct 2022

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