Archbishop James Odongo †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Tororo, Uganda

Bishop of Uganda, Military

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Mar 1931		Born
22 Dec 1956	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tororo, Uganda
25 Nov 1964	33.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Tororo, Uganda
25 Nov 1964	33.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bahanna
16 Feb 1965	33.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Bahanna
19 Aug 1968	37.3	Appointed	Bishop of Tororo, Uganda
5 Jan 1985	53.7	Appointed	Bishop of Uganda, Military
2 Jan 1999	67.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Tororo, Uganda
27 Jun 2007	76.2	Retired	Archbishop of Tororo, Uganda
4 Dec 2020	89.6	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Tororo, Uganda

MicroData Summary
James Odongo
Archbishop James Odongo
(born 27 Mar 1931, died 4 Dec 2020)
Archbishop Emeritus of Tororo

Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father
Ad Limina - March 2010: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Molo, Vicariate Apostolic of Upper Nile {Nilo Superiore}
Ordained Bishop Tororo, Diocese of Tororo
Death Place St. Francis Nsambya, Hospital, Kampala, Archdiocese of Kampala

a priest for 63.9 years
a bishop for 55.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa †
Bishop of Bukoba
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Francis Greif, M.H.M. †
Bishop of Tororo
Bishop Vincent Joseph McCauley, C.S.C. †
Bishop of Fort Portal

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa † (1952)
Bishop of Bukoba
Archbishop David James Mathew † (1938)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Bithynia
Arthur Cardinal Hinsley † (1926)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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

Ordained Priest:
Archbishop Denis Kiwanuka Lote † (1965)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Charles Martin Wamika † (1994)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Bernard Louis Willigers, M.H.M. † (1967)
Archbishop Alois Wagner † (1969)
Bishop Erasmus Desiderius Wandera † (1981)
Bishop Joseph Oyanga † (1989)
Archbishop Denis Kiwanuka Lote † (1991)
Archbishop Emmanuel Obbo, A.J. (2007)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1680912

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 27 Jun 2007
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 150, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: CB, 4 Dec 2020
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 246, Necrology (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1965, Number 11

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