Bishop Ephraim Silas Obot †

Deceased

Bishop of Idah, Nigeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Oct 1936		Born
29 Jun 1968	31.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria
28 Jun 1971	34.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria
28 Jun 1971	34.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Iunca in Byzacena
31 Oct 1971	35.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Iunca in Byzacena
17 Dec 1977	41.1	Appointed	Bishop of Idah, Nigeria
12 Apr 2009	72.5	Died	Bishop of Idah, Nigeria

MicroData Summary for Ephraim Silas Obot
(VIAF: 6168291; WikiData: Q1346857)
Bishop Ephraim Silas Obot (born 6 Oct 1936, died 12 Apr 2009) Bishop of Idah

Event Place
Birth Place Adiasim
Ordained Bishop Ifuho, Diocese of Ikot Ekpene

a priest for 40.7 years
a bishop for 37.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Amelio Poggi †
Titular Archbishop of Cercina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Dominic Ignatius Ekandem †
Bishop of Ikot Ekpene
Bishop Felix Alaba Adeosin Job
Titular Bishop of Abthugni

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Amelio Poggi † (1967)
Titular Archbishop of Cercina
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Fidelis Uga Orgah † (1995)

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 200, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 18, Number 968

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