Bishop Silas Silvius Njiru †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Meru, Kenya

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Oct 1928		Born
17 Dec 1955	27.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Meru, Kenya
2 Oct 1975	46.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Meru, Kenya
2 Oct 1975	46.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Maturba
1 Jan 1976	47.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Maturba
9 Dec 1976	48.1	Appointed	Bishop of Meru, Kenya
18 Mar 2004	75.4	Retired	Bishop of Meru, Kenya
28 Apr 2020	91.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Meru, Kenya

MicroData Summary
Silas Silvius Njiru
Bishop Silas Silvius Njiru
(born 10 Oct 1928, died 28 Apr 2020)
Bishop Emeritus of Meru

Event Place
Birth Place Kevote
Ordained Bishop Stadium, Meru, Diocese of Meru
Death Place Hospital, Rivoli, Italy
Buried Place (Original) Consolata Missionaries, Cemetery, Torino, Archdiocese of Torino {Turin}, Italy

a priest for 64.3 years
a bishop for 44.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga †
Archbishop of Nairobi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Lorenzo Bessone, I.M.C. †
Bishop of Meru
Bishop Caesar Gatimu †
Bishop of Nyeri

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga † (1957)
Archbishop of Nairobi
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Peter Joseph Kairo (1983)
John Cardinal Njue (1986)
Bishop Luigi Locati † (1996)
Bishop Salesius Mugambi (2002)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1753869

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 35, Number 2,136
d: CB, 28 Apr 2020
loc: CB, 29 Apr 2020
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 246, Necrology (back)

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